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Chapter5 Managing Policies
Discovering Policies
Viewing Policy Discovery Task Status
When you initiate policy discovery a discovery task is created. For each policy discovery initiation, only
one task is created regardless of the number of devices being discovered.
You can view the status of the current policy discovery task in the Discovery Status dialog box, which
opens automatically when the task is initiated. This dialog box provides updated status information about
the discovery task, including summary information about the task and details about each device being
discovered.
You can abort a discovery task, if required. When you perform policy discovery on a single device,
aborting the task results in partial discovery. In such cases, we recommend deleting the information and
starting again. When you perform policy discovery on multiple devices, any devices for which discovery
was completed before you aborted the operation are fully discovered. Security Manager automatically
discards the information for any partially discovered device.
The Discovery Status dialog box also displays the appropriate warning and error messages if any
problems are encountered during the discovery process. For example, if the CLI commands in a
configuration file do not define a complete Security Manager policy, a warning message is displayed that
you must complete the policy definition in the relevant Security Manager policy page.
For more information, see Discovery Status Dialog Box, page5-21.
To view information about previous discovery tasks, select Manage > Policy Discovery Status to open
the Policy Discovery Status window. Select the discovery task in the top pane of the window, and the
results of the task are displayed in the lower panes. For more information about using the Policy
Discovery Status window, see Policy Discovery Status Page, page5-23.
Related Topics
•Discovering Policies on Devices Already in Security Manager, page5-15
•Frequently Asked Questions about Policy Discovery, page 5-25
•Discovering Policies, page 5-12

Discovery Status Dialog Box

Use the Discovery Status dialog box to view detailed information about the current policy discovery task.
The dialog box includes general information about the status of the task, as well as detailed information
about any warnings or errors generated by the device being discovered.
The Discovery Status dialog box opens automatically when you initiate a discovery task on existing
devices and when you add devices from the network, from a configuration file, or from an export file.
For more information about initiating a discovery task, see Discovering Policies on Devices Already in
Security Manager, page 5-15.
Related Topics
•Viewing Policy Discovery Task Status, page 5-21
•Discovering Policies, page 5-12
•Adding Devices from the Network, page 3-11
•Adding Devices from Configuration Files, page3-20
•Adding Devices from an Inventory File, page3-29