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12 Simplified discovery of Dell EMC PowerEdge modular infrastructure (MX7000) in Dell EMC OpenManage
Essentials
2.2 Auto-discovered devices associated to MX chassis
After the discovery and inventory cycle of the MX chassis and blade servers is complete, select the
Discovery Range Group to view the complete details of the devices discovered in the range. For example,
MX chassis and auto-discovered devices associated to the MX chassis (blade servers) as shown in 0.
View full info about the MX chassis and servers associated with it
In 0, you can observe that discovering MX chassis IP by using complete chassis discovery feature resulted in
auto-discovery of two blade servers (iDRACs).
The discovery range for the auto discovered devices has the following naming convention:
Chassis_<Chassis_IP_address> (<Component_IP_address>)
where <Chassis_IP_address> is the IP address of MX chassis in which the device is present and
<Component_IP_address> is the IP address of the iDRAC.
The chassis range that is entered and auto-discovered device discovery ranges (blade servers) will display
different icons that allow you to easily identify the group.
2.3 Discovery, inventory, and status operations
The MX chassis device right-click options, Refresh Inventory and Refresh Status, available in the device
tree and the Perform Discovery Now, Perform Discovery and Inventory Now, Perform Status Polling
Now and Perform Inventory Now options available in the Discovery and Inventory portal result in the
same action on all the auto-discovered devices.
For example, to perform status polling of the MX chassis and all auto-discovered devices associated to the
MX chassis, you can do one of the following: