Owners Manual

Field Description

Retries (attempts) Specifies the maximum number of times the

discovery engine reissues an IPMI request after the

first call times out. The discovery engine reissues

the request until it is successful, or all retry

attempts have timed out. A valid range is from 0 to

10 retries. The default is 1.

NOTE: The retries and time-out parameters are used for both the Remote Management Control

Protocol (RMCP) ping and the IPMI connection.

Discovery Range Action

Select these options to discover or inventory devices, components, and servers.

Field Description

Do not perform discovery or inventory Select this option to set up a schedule to perform

discovery and inventory (at a later time).

Perform only discovery Select this option to perform discovery.

Perform both discovery and inventory Select this option to perform both discovery and

inventory.

Summary

View the configuration selections. To change configurations, click Back.

Add Exclude Range

From OpenManage Essentials, select Manage → Discovery and Inventory → Common Tasks → Add

Exclude Range. Register new ranges to exclude from discovery or to remove a previously set exclude

range.

You can also right-click Exclude Ranges and select Add Exclude Range.

Add Exclude Range Options

Field Description

IP Address / range Register a device to exclude from the discovery

process by specifying the IP address or IP address

range of the device.

The following are examples of valid discovery

range type address specifications (* is the wildcard

character, which includes all possible addresses in

the specified range):

• Exclude range — 193.109.112.*

• 193.104.20-40.*

• 192.168.*.*

• 192.168.2-51.3-91

• Exclude range — 193.109.112.45-99