User's Manual

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Discovering and Inventorying Devices
Perform Discovery and Inventory in order to manage your network devices.
Related Links
Configuring a Discovery and Inventory Task
Viewing Configured Discovery and Inventory Ranges
Scheduling Discovery
Scheduling Inventory
Excluding Ranges
Supported Devices, Protocols, and Features Matrix
Supported Devices, Protocols, and Features Matrix
NOTE: For a description of the features listed in the following table, see Legend and Definitions.
Protocol / Mechanism Simple Network
Management
Protocol (SNMP)
Windows
Management
Instrumentation
(WMI)
Web Services-
Management (WS-
Man)
Dell servers with
OpenManage
Server
Administrator
installed
Windows /
Hyper‑V
Discovery
Correlation
Classification
Hardware inventory
Software inventory
monitoring
Traps/alerts
Application launch
• OpenManage
Server
Administrator
console
• Remote desktop
• Warranty
Discovery
Correlation
Classification
Hardware inventory
Software inventory
monitoring
Application launch
• OpenManage
Server
Administrator
console
• Remote desktop
• Warranty
Not supported
Linux/ VMware
ESX
Discovery
Correlation
Classification
Hardware inventory
Software inventory
Monitoring
Traps/alerts
Not supported Not supported
VMware ESXi Traps/alerts Not supported Discovery
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