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Client Discovery 45
Client Discovery
Clients which have the HP Management Agent installed must be
‘discovered’ by HP Device Manager before they can be used. There
are four approaches to client discovery:
• Through an HP Management Agent Broadcast (automatic)
• Server-side discovery using IP walking
• Discover Agent using DHCP Tag
• Agent Configuration
HP Management
Agent Broadcast
The HP Management Gateway will normally be able to detect most
HP Management Agents. The gateway functions by listening for a
network broadcast message sent when each agent starts up. How-
ever, to ensure that the gateway is able to detect all agents, it must be
running before each agent is started up.
If the gateway is unable to detect an agent, Discover Agent, IP
walking, DHCP Tag or Agent Configuration can be used instead.
Discover Agent HP Device Manager can search a range of IP addresses for agents
and gateways.
1 Click on the Discover button in the Device Toolbar and select
Discover Device in the menu.
The
Discover Device dialog will be displayed.