Users Guide
Discovering Resources | Getting Started
OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide 97
Add these to the
owareapps/installprops/lib/installed.properties
file with the
values you want preceded by an equal sign (=).
Discovering Your Network
The following steps describe how to discover devices on your network. You can also edit any seeded
authentications and discovery profiles to see what they look like.
1
Right-click the Discovery Profiles list and select
New.
In a multitenant environment, you can create profiles exclusively for specific tenant sites (and
the master site). A selector appears with a list of available sites if you have other sites
configured.
2
The Discovery Profile Editor appears, with a step-by-step set of screens to configure resource
discovery. You can navigate through it by clicking the screen tab names at the top, or by
clicking the
Next
button at the bottom of the page.
This editor appears with the following panels:
General
3
General Parameters
—Configure the
Name, Description
and whether this profile is the
baseline default. Baseline discovery finds the baseline configuration to compare to later
discoveries.
4
Profile Options
—Select the
Device Naming Format
(how the device appears in resource
lists, once discovered), whether to
Manage by
IP address or hostname, and check whether to
Resolve Hostname(s), ICMP Ping Device(s), Manage ICMP-only Device(s),
or
Manage
Unclassified Device(s).
This last checkbox determines whether OpenManage Network
Manager attempts to manage devices that have no device driver installed. Management may
be possible, but more limited than for devices with drivers installed, provided this capability is
one you have licensed.
NOTE:
Some packages disable ICMP ping by default.
The Filters (by
Location, Vendor,
or
Device Type
) let you narrow the list of devices discovered
by the new profile. As the screen says, this filtering will not have any impact on the processing
that occurs during the
Inspection
step.
Make sure you
Save
profiles you alter, or these selections have no impact when you execute
discovery.
Network
5
After you click
Next,
the
Network
screen appears.
Network Type and Addresses
—Select the type of entry in the pick list (
IP Address(es), IP v6
Address, CIDR Address, Hostname, Subnet
).
NOTE:
You can specify an IP v4 Address range by separating the beginning and end with a dash. For example:
192.168.1.1-192.168.1.240.
Hover your cursor over the data entry field and the tooltips describe what valid entries look
like.