Users Guide
Discovery Schedule
You can congure OpenManage Essentials to discover devices and display them in the Device tree.
• Enable device discovery.
• Initiate device discovery.
• Set the discovery speed.
• Specify how devices are discovered.
• For failed discovery attempts, use the Troubleshooting Tool.
Related links
Discovery Schedule Settings
Viewing Discovery Conguration
To view discovery conguration, click Manage → Discovery and Inventory → Discovery Schedule.
Discovery Schedule Settings
Congure OpenManage Essentials to discover new devices on a network. The settings apply to all discovery ranges. OpenManage
Essentials records all agents, IP addresses, and the health of the devices.
Table 31. Discovery Schedule Settings
Field Description
Enable Discovery Select to schedule device discovery.
Congure Global Device Discovery interval Set the frequency of discovery in weekly or daily intervals.
• Every Week On — Specify the day or days to schedule
discovery and the time for the discovery to begin.
• Every <n> Days <n> Hours interval — Specify the intervals
between discovery cycles. The maximum discovery interval
is 365 days and 23 hours.
Discovery Speed Specify the amount of resources (system and network) available
for accelerating the discovery speed. The faster the speed,
more resources are required to perform discovery, but less time
is required.
Discover Specify how the devices are discovered.
• All Devices — Select to discover all devices that respond to
an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) ping. ICMP
ping is optional in OpenManage Essentials version 2.4. To
skip ICMP ping during discovery, click Settings →
Discovery Settings → Skip ICMP ping during discovery. If
selected, ICMP ping is skipped during discovery and
inventory of the devices.
• Instrumented Devices — Select to discover only devices
that have instrumentation (such as OpenManage Server
Administrator, OpenManage Array Manager, and Networking
Ethernet switches) for Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP), Windows management Instrumentation
WMI), Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
management, or WS-Management (WS-Man). See agents
supported for more information about systems management
instrumentation agents.
Name Resolution Specify how the device names are resolved. If you are managing
a cluster, use the NetBIOS name resolution to discern each
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