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)
REpresentational State
Transfer (REST)
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 Not supported
Linux/
VMware ESX
Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Hardware inventory
Software inventory
Monitoring
Traps/alerts
Application launch
• OpenManage
Server
Not supported Not supported Not supported
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