Discovering Non-Canon Devices
You can better refine the discovery process by including or not including other standard MIB devices not manufactured by Canon. Specify your choice based on whether you want to broaden the discovery process beyond Canon devices, or to focus the discovery on only Canon devices.
Managing a Maximum Number of Devices
To further refine the discovery process, you specify the maximum number of devices you want to manage. Since each managed device uses system resources, this setting enables you to preserve system resources during the discovery process, by limiting the number of devices to be managed.
For example, since each managed device requires approximately 3MB of memory, managing a large number of devices may quickly deplete available memory, which in turn may cause system performance problems. Therefore, you may want to monitor your available memory, to assess the impact of increasing the number of managed devices.
Manually Starting and Stopping the Discovery Cycle
If you did not set the discovery process to run automatically, you need to start the discovery cycle manually. Once started, you can manually stop the cycle as needed.
If you set the discovery process to run automatically, the discovery cycle starts automatically at the specified time interval. However, you can stop the discovery cycle once it starts. Once stopped, you can manually start the discovery cycle again.
To start a discovery cycle that has not started or was stopped:
Under Settings, click Start Discovery.
To stop a discovery cycle that started (automatically or manually): Under Settings, click Stop Discovery.