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Chapter 5 Discovery

Policies

To create IP Discovery policy

1ClickAddPolicyontheIPDiscoveryPoliciespage.

2TypethenameoftheplanintheNamefield.

3Typethedescription.

4 Selectorclearthedifferentoptionsavailableonthethreetabs‐General,Scheduling,andScope.Typethe

informationrequiredinthesescreens.

5ClickCreate.

VMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManager

OnlineHelpprovidesthedetailedstepsforcreatinganIP

Discoverypolicy.

Detail Discovery

DetailDiscoveryisamethodtofindmoregranulardetails,suchashardwareandsoftwareconfiguration

informationthatarenotavailablewithpassivediscovery.DetailDiscoveryextendstheinformationobtained

usingADM’sPassiveDiscoverytechnologyandusescommonnetworkprotocolstoremotelyqueryserversin

themanagednetwork.Usingtheseprotocols,

youcanobtainsupplementaryinformationaboutnetworkhosts

andaddittotheMDR.Youcanviewtheadditionalconfigurationinformationfoundbydetaildiscoveryin

thepropertiesscreenforanyhost,service,ordevicethroughtheDiscover>Inventorypage.Allotherdetail

discoveryinformationandadministrativetasks,such

ascreatingdetaildiscoverypolicies,aredonethrough

theDetailDiscoverytabasshownbelow.

Detail Discovery Tab

Dashboard

TheDetailDiscovery>Dashboardpagedisplaystw ographsandthreetables.Dashboardisavisualtoolthat

letsyouunderstanddetaildiscoverystatus,process,andproblemstoberesolved.Youcanseethesystemstate

anddetaildiscoverypolicies.Dashboardsummarizesthedetaildiscoverystatusofthesystemandenables

you

toanalyzedetaildiscoverystatus(success,failure,andsoon)indifferentviews.Thefollowinggraphsand

tablesareavailable:

 DetailDiscoveryHosts/DevicesCoverageSummary

 DetailDiscoveryDistributionbyResults

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