Users Guide
Discovery Range Action
Select these options to discover or inventory devices, components, and servers.
Table 29. Discovery Range Action
Field Description
Do not perform discovery or inventory Select this option to set up a schedule to perform discovery and
inventory (at a later time).
Perform only discovery Select this option to perform discovery.
Perform both discovery and inventory Select this option to perform both discovery and inventory.
Summary
View the conguration selections. To change congurations, click Back.
Add Exclude Range
From OpenManage Essentials, select Manage → Discovery and Inventory → Common Tasks → Add Exclude Range. Register new
ranges to exclude from discovery or to remove a previously set exclude range.
You can also right-click Exclude Ranges and select Add Exclude Range.
Add Exclude Range Options
Table 30. Add Exclude Range Options
Field Description
IP address / range Register a device to exclude from the discovery process by
specifying the IP address or IP address range of the device.
The following are examples of valid discovery range type
address specications (* is the wildcard character, which
includes all possible addresses in the specied range):
• Exclude range — 193.109.112.*
• 193.104.20-40.*
• 192.168.*.*
• 192.168.2-51.3-91
• Exclude range — 193.109.112.45-99
• System IP address — 193.109.112.99
Name
Add the exclude range name for the IP address / range.
Host name Register to exclude from the discovery process by specifying
the host name of the device, for example,
mynode.mycompany.com.
NOTE: OpenManage Essentials does not check for
invalid characters in the host name. If the host name you
specify contains invalid characters, the name is
accepted. However, the device with that name is not
found during the discovery cycle.
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