Owner's Manual

42 Configuring Discovery and Inventory Settings
The Discovery User Interface
To access the Discovery portal: click Home Discovery and Inventory
Network Discovery.
Knowing Your Discovery User Interface
The Network Discovery Quick Start Actions Web part is a good place to start
configuring discovery for network devices.
The Network Discovery Task Management Web part at the bottom of the
screen displays the available discovery tasks and the tasks that have run.
The Discovery Results by Tasks Web part displays the tasks run and the
number of devices discovered by the task.
The Discovered Device Classification Web part displays the various types of
devices discovered. For example, servers, printers, tapes, switches, and so on.
Before Configuring Discovery Settings
Before using Dell Management Console to configure discovery, you must take
some basic decisions based on the network. Specifically, you must determine
the following:
• Host names, IP addresses, or IP subnet ranges of systems that you want
to discover.
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