Quick Reference Guide

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18 Quick Start

5. Select Discovery Activities (Listed in Execution Order)

—The lower portion of the screen

lists activities to perform after discovery. Use the

Select Activity

field along with the command

(...) and search buttons to its right to find activities. Selecting here lets you select from those

listed by default, and from those that appear in the

Activities Manager

. Click

Add

to list a

selected activity below, checked as

Select

ed. Some activities appear automatically (from the

default

discovery profile). Check those you want to activate.

The

Edit

button lets you configure the selected Activity’s parameters, if that is available and

appropriate. The editor also appears if you

Add

a task with configurable parameters. If you select

an activity that requires user input, the standard attribute selection screen(s) for that activity

appear during Discovery. Fill in the required attributes, and Discovery continues.

Remove

deletes the selected activity from the list.

NOTE:

You can add a task to add discovered devices to OpenManage Network Manager’s

heartbeat. You can configure what appears by default as described in the User

Guide.

You can also use the up/down/top/bottom arrows to reorder selected rows, reordering what

activities discovery executes. Regardless of the row order, however, device-based tasks run first,

and group-based tasks (like link discovery) run last, since groups depend on their member

information. See the

User Guide

for more about available activities.

Clicking

Reorder

moves the activities with

Select

checked to the top of the list.

After you have configured this tab, you can click the

Inspect

button or click the

Discover

button.

7. Inspect

. Clicking the

Inspect

button lets you validate the selected authentication credentials,

displaying the devices’ responses to the credentials you have set up in the

Resource Discovery

screen. Columns in the listed devices let you select which devices to

Discover

(by checking that

checkbox), the

IP Address, Hostname, Vendor, Status,

whether the device was

Pinged

(and

responded), whether OpenManage Network Manager management is

Licensed

for the device,

the

Valid Auths

, and the status of selected authentications (

Auth Status

)

NOTE:

Inspection simplifies some manual steps that you can still do yourself. You can

manually telnet to a device to verify that you have the correct authentication

information. You can also examine the device’s config file and verify that the SNMP

community string is correct.

You can filter the results that appear listed in this screen by entering the text to search for in

Filter Results

at its top. You can also

Select

Deselect Device(s)

, and

Change Authentication

with the icons to the right of the filter. You can also use the

Discover

column’s checkbox to

select items to discover.

The columns in this screen display the

IP Address, Hostname,

and

Vendor

of inspected devices.

It also displays

Status

(like New, or No Response), whether the device responded when

Pinged

whether it is

Licensed

to be managed by OpenManage Network Manager, the list of

Valid