Users Guide

Resource Management Portlets and Editors | Resource Management
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• Authentication , where uou can create new, or add existing authentications. See
Authentications on page 162 for the way to create such authentications outside the discovery
process.
CAUTION:
If a device or its driver requires two authentications and you only enter one, it may not appear in
inventory after discovery. To correct this, enter both authentications in the Discovery Profile or in Quick
Discovery. If you discover a device partially with only one authentication—typically the SNMP
community—you can re-discover with the correct authentications later, or Edit the resource to add that
correct authentication and the management interface for it.
Note that authentications appear with Edit/Delete icons and Up/Down arrows on their right.
The Edit icon opens the authentication editor. Click the arrows to arrange the order in which
the application tries credentials (top first). Ordering only applies when two credentials are of
the same type.
If you have imported a discovery profile without importing or creating the authentications it
uses, editing its authentications is not possible. If you cannot import authentications, or have
not created them when you do attempt to edit them, the easiest solution is to delete the un-
imported un-created authentication the profile refers to and create a new one.
If two similar authentications include one with a
deeper , enable login, and a “shallower” one
without that additional login, arrange to try the deeper login first. If the device rejects it,
discovery still tries the shallower one later.
Actions
When you click Next, the Actions panel appears.
You can accept the default actions that appear here (like Resync, adding the device to a global
Scheduled Resync, link discovery, and so on) by clicking Next to the
Inspection portion of
discovery. (See also
Configuring Resync on page 100).