Owners Manual

Discovery Configuration Options

Field Description

Group Name Specifies the group name for a set of devices.

IP address / range Specifies the IP address or IP address range.

The following are examples of valid discovery

range type address specifications (* is the wildcard

character, meaning all possible addresses in the

specified range):

• 193.109.112.*

• 193.104.20-40.*

• 192.168.*.*

• 192.168.2-51.3-91

• 193.109.112.45-99

• System IP address—193.109.112.99

NOTE: Click Add to add multiple ranges of IP

addresses. IPV6 addresses are not supported.

Discovery Range Name Specifies the discovery range name for the IP

address/range.

Host name Specifies the host name, for example,

mynode.mycompany.com.

Click Add to add multiple host names.

NOTE: You can add multiple host names by

separating them using commas.

NOTE: Invalid characters in the host name are

not checked. If the host name you provide

contains invalid characters, the name is

accepted. However, the device is not found

during the discovery cycle.

Subnet mask Specifies the subnet mask for the IP address range.

The subnet mask is used to determine the

broadcast addresses for the subnet(s) part of the

range. The OpenManage Essentials Network

Monitoring Service does not use the broadcast

address when discovering devices in an IP address

range. The following are examples of valid subnet

mask specifications:

• 255.255.255.0 (The default subnet mask for a

Class C network.)

• 255.255.0.0 (The default subnet mask for a

Class B network.)

• 255.255.242.0 (A custom subnet mask

specification.)

By default, the subnet mask is set to 255.255.255.0.