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If the discovery was started as a result of a scheduled discovery the dialog
box will first appear in its minimized form. In this case a progress bar
appears in the status bar of the main window, indicating that it is
performing a discovery:
Figure 45 Network Discovery Progress Dialog Box - Minimized
You can use the Stop button on the status bar to cancel the discovery
operation, and the Restore button to restore the full Network Discovery
Progress dialog box.
The Network Discovery Progress dialog box shows how complete each
stage of the discovery is. The top two progress bars relate to the discovery
process.
■ The upper of these shows progress through the various discovery
stages on the current subnet. See “
The Discovery Process – Detecting
Devices” on page 92 for details of the stages involved in discovering
each subnet. This will reset each time the discovery process moves
onto a new subnet.
■ The lower of these indicates progress on the current discovery stage.
This will reset each time the discovery process moves onto a new stage
within the current subnet. After completing discovery of all specified
subnets, this progress bar is used to indicate progress of the sizing
stage.
The table in the center of the dialog box periodically displays the devices
that have been detected. This is updated each time the discovery process
establishes the exact type of a device it has discovered.
When the sizing stage is complete the discovery process moves on to
topology (discovering links). The bottom progress bar on the dialog box is
used to show the progress of each multinet. See “
The Discovery Process –
Determining Topology” on page 96 for more information
Click the Cancel button to abort the discovery process.
Click the Minimize button to hide the dialog box and reduced progress
information is then displayed on the status bar.