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Discovery and inventory commands
9 Advantages of Command Line Interface in Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials
3 Discovery and inventory commands
The following functionality is provided by the PowerShell command line interface:
Create a discovery range
Remove a discovery range
Create a discovery range group
Remove a discovery range group
Enable discovery range / discovery range group
Disable discovery range / discovery range group
Create a discovery exclude range
Remove a discovery exclude range
Run a discovery range discovery only (also per device)[range name]
Run a discovery range discovery and inventory only
Run a discovery range inventory only
Run a discovery range status polling
Run a discovery range group discovery only (also per device)[range name]
Run a discovery range group discovery and inventory only
Run a discovery range group inventory only
Run a discovery range group status polling
Get status execution progress of a discovery range
List devices discovered in a given discovery range
List ranges / List range groups
Details on each command are discussed in the following sections.
3.1 Create discovery range
PS> Add-DiscoveryRange Profile <profile.xml> -Range <range>
PS> Add-DiscoveryRange Profile <profile.xml> -RangeList <ranges in xml>
PS> Add-DiscoveryRange Profile <profile.xml> -RangeListCSV <ranges in
CSV format>
3.2 Optional Flags
wmiPassword <wmi password>
ipmiPassword <ipmi password>
wsmanPassword <wsman password>
emcPassword <emc password>
RESTPassword <REST password>
SNMPV3AuthenticatiAdd-onPassword <authentication password>
SNMPV3EncryptionPassword <encryption password>
The above flags are required if the corresponding section in the profile.xml is enabled. If a password flag is
passed to a protocol that is not enabled in the profile.xml, it is ignored.