Users Guide

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Discovering and inventorying devices
Perform discovery and inventory to manage your network devices.
Related links
Creating a discovery and inventory task
Viewing congured discovery and inventory ranges
Scheduling discovery
Scheduling inventory
Excluding ranges
Supported devices, protocols, and features matrix—SNMP, WMI, and WS-Man
Supported devices, protocols, and features matrix—SNMP, WMI, and
WS-Man
NOTE: For description of the features listed in the following table, see Legend and Denitions.
Table 11. Supported devices, protocols (SNMP, WMI, WS-Man), and features matrix
Protocol / Mechanism Simple Network
Management Protocol
(SNMP)
Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI)
Web Services-
Management (WS-Man)
Servers with
OpenManage Server
Administrator
installed
Windows /
Hyper‑V
Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Hardware inventory
Software inventory
Monitoring
Traps/alerts
Application launch
• OpenManage Server
Administrator console
• RAC
• Remote desktop
• System update
Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Hardware inventory
Software inventory
Monitoring
Application launch
• OpenManage Server
Administrator console
• Remote desktop
• System update
Not supported
Linux/ VMware
ESX
Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Hardware inventory
Software inventory
Monitoring
Traps/alerts
Application launch
• OpenManage Server
Administrator console
• RAC
Not supported Not supported
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