User's Manual

78 Configuring Discovery and Inventory Settings
Discovery Logs
Discovery logs let you review the status of the discovery tasks. The logs
provide useful data when you want to troubleshoot issues with discovery.
By default, Dell Management Console does not save log entries.
To enable discovery logs:
NOTE: If you are discovering a large number of devices, enabling Discovery Logs
may affect the performance of the Dell Management Console.
1 Click Settings  All Settings .
2 On the left pane, select the Discovery and Inventory folder  Discovery
Log Settings
.
3 On the right pane, click Change Settings .
4 Select Enable discovery logging , enter the path where you want to save
the discovery logs and click
Save Settings .
5 Close the browser window and restart the Altiris object host service.
Discovery Performance
To manage performance of Dell Management Console for discovery tasks,
you can set the number of threads required for each discovery tasks before
creating the discovery tasks.
1 Click Settings  All Settings .
2 On the right hand pane, under Settings  Discovery and Inventory 
Network Discovery Settings .
3 On the right hand pane, change the Maximum number of threads
per
discovery task .
This value is applied to all discovery tasks that you create.
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