Owner's Manual

204 Discovery
Resource Discovery Profiles
Creating a Resource Discovery Profile lets you store information about what you want to discover,
along with any authentication needed for that device. Profiles let you store the parameters for
discovery, and configure defaults for manual discovery, so you can easily execute (or schedule)
repeated discoveries. To use profiles, either click
Execute on the Profile Manager screen, or go to
the scheduler (see Chapter 30, Schedules) and set up a schedule to run the profile. You can even
have recurring discovery to keep your database description of discovered entities current with any
changes.
Figure 12-10. Discovery Profiles
The Discovery Profiles manager has the following action or right-click menu items:
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New —Create a new profile. See Creating and Editing Resource Discovery Profiles.
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Open —Edit an existing, selected profile. See Creating and Editing Resource Discovery Profiles.
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Delete —Delete an existing, selected profile.
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Discover —Use the selected profile(s) and perform discovery. The Audit screen then appears,
displaying the messages between this software and the device.