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Deleting product types from the list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Defining global setting preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Configuring event-based collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

IP discovery profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Configuring a discovery profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Duplicating a discovery profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Configuring address ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Editing address ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Scheduling discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Suspending a discovery schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Editing a discovery schedule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Configuring advanced discovery profile preferences . . . . . . . . 78 Deleting a discovery profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Creating a discovery address file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Starting discovery manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Starting discovery automatically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Stopping discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Viewing discovery status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Viewing discovery reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 E-mailing discovery reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Exporting discovery reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Viewing the discovery log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Individual IP device discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Adding an IP device to discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Editing IP device discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Deleting IP devices from discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Host discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Discovering Hosts by Network address or host name . . . . . . . 93 Importing Hosts from a CSV file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Importing Hosts from a Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Importing Hosts from a VM manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Editing Host adapter credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Removing a host from active discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Rediscovering a previously discovered fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Deleting a host adapter from discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Viewing the host discovery state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 Troubleshooting host discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

VM Manager discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 VM Manager discovery requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 Discovering a VM manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 Editing a VM manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Excluding a host from VM manager discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 Including a host in VM manager discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 Removing a VM manager from active discovery . . . . . . . . . . .106 Rediscovering a previously discovered VM manager . . . . . . .106 Deleting a VM manager from discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Viewing the VM manager discovery state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Troubleshooting VM manager discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

IP Rediscovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

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