106CHAPTER 4: DISCOVERING THE NETWORK
Scheduled | You can instruct 3Com Network Director to perform scheduled |
Discoveries | rediscoveries of your network. Note that you can only schedule a |
| rediscovery, you cannot schedule your first discovery on an empty map. |
| A scheduled discovery is always a repeating task. In other words once you |
| have setup your schedule it will be performed indefinitely at the specified |
| times. You can, however, subsequently cancel or modify the schedule if |
| you wish. |
| When you schedule a discovery from the Network Discovery wizard you |
| are instructing 3Com Network Director to do two things – to do a |
| discovery (with the parameters specified in the wizard) immediately when |
| you exit the wizard, and also to perform subsequent rediscoveries |
| according to your specified schedule. |
| You can configure a single, |
| Discovery. This setting is global, and applies to any open map, no matter |
| how the map was initially discovered. Also, the setting applies to the |
| whole of the currently open map, you cannot specify a scheduled |
| rediscovery of selected subnets. See “Scheduled Discovery Pane” on |
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Components | The following section describes the features of the discovery tool and |
| how you can use them to tailor the discovery process to your needs. It |
| includes the dialogs and wizards that you can use to control the |
| discovery, and any appropriate reports that may be generated as a result |
| of a discovery operation. |
| You cannot launch the Network Discovery wizard while an existing |
| discovery operation is in progress. Instead, 3Com Network Director will |
| simply display the Progress dialog box for that discovery. |
Launching a This section describes how your instruct 3Com Network Director to start discovery the discovery process. You can initiate network discovery from a number
of places:
■The Welcome dialog box
■File > New menu option
■Tools > Network Discovery menu option with nothing selected