Users Guide

Field Description
• O
Add Discovery Range
1. Click Manage → Discovery and Inventory → Common Tasks.
2. Click Add Discovery Range. For more information, see Creating a Discovery and Inventory Task.
3. Provide information for the appropriate protocols for discovery, inventory, or for both:
• Discovery Range Conguration
• Device Type Filtering
• ICMP Conguration
• SNMP Conguration
• WMI Conguration
• Storage Conguration
• WS-Man Conguration
• SSH Conguration
• IPMI Conguration
• Discovery Range Action
• Summary
Discovery Conguration
A discovery range is a network segment registered in OpenManage Essentials for the purpose of discovering devices. OpenManage
Essentials attempts to discover devices on all registered discovery ranges that are enabled. A discovery range includes subnet, a
range of IP addresses on a subnet, an individual IP address, or an individual host name. Specify the IP address, IP address range, or
host name for the discovery process. For more information, see Discovery Conguration Options.
Discovery Conguration Options
Table 19. Discovery Conguration Options
Field Description
Save as Group Select this option to save the discovery range as a group.
Group Name Species the group name for the discovery range.
IP address / range Species the IP address or IP address range.
The following are examples of valid discovery range type
address specications (* is the wildcard character, meaning all
possible addresses in the specied range):
• 193.109.112.*
• 193.104.20-40.*
• 192.168.*.*
• 192.168.2-51.3-91
• 193.109.112.45-99
• System IP address—193.109.112.99
NOTE: Click Add to add multiple ranges of IP addresses.
IPV6 addresses are not supported.
Discovery Range Name Species the discovery range name for the IP address/range.
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