Chapter 6 Performing Administrative Tasks

Using Discovery and Managing Devices

To change the scheduled inventory intervals, you can reset the inventory polling parameters. See Managing System Parameters, page 6-73.

Immediate Inventory of Selected Devices

Use this option to run an immediate inventory of selected devices.

Note Your login determines whether you can use this option.

Procedure

Step 1 Select Administration > Discover > Inventory > Run Inventory Now. The device selector shows all managed devices in group folders in the middle pane, and the Run Inventory Collection window appears.

Step 2 To search for devices:

a.From the list in the search area located in the middle pane, select the method for searching: by device name or IP address.

b.Enter the IP address or name. You can use asterisks (*) as wildcards. An asterisk denotes any number of characters in a name or an entire octet in an IP address; for example, *AP or 172.*.*.*.

c.Click Search. The matching devices appear in the Search Results folder in the device selector.

Step 3 To select devices for inventory:

a.Expand the folder that contains the devices you want to include.

b.Click the device group folder. All of the devices in the group are added to the list in the Run Inventory Collection window.

Note Each immediate inventory job for selected devices contains devices from only one group.

c.From the list of devices in the group, select the devices you want to inventory.

 

 

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