Users Guide

Viewing Discovery Conguration

To view discovery conguration, click Manage → Discovery and Inventory → Discovery Schedule.

Discovery Schedule Settings

Congure 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 32. Discovery Schedule Settings

Field Description

Enable Discovery Select to schedule device discovery.

Congure 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 and

later. 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

independent system. If you are not managing a cluster, a DNS

name resolution is recommended.

• DNS — Select to resolve names using the Domain Naming

Service.

• NetBIOS — Select to resolve names using system names.