To discover your resources, your resources can be scanned in one of the following ways:
- Schedule a scan periodically.
- Scan your devices manually anytime.
Schedule periodic scans
To auto-discover your devices, schedule the discovery at a specified interval on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis described in creating a Discovery profile.
You can set a schedule while creating a discovery profile or you can add a schedule later by modifying an existing Discovery profile.
To schedule a scan:
- Go to Setup > Resources and select Discovery and Deployment.
- Click the + icon to display all available fields.
- Create a discovery profile or edit an existing discovery profile.
- Set up a schedule to discover your resources by setting a recurrence pattern at a specified interval on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis.
- Click Finish.
The Discovery and Deployment page displays the discovery profile with the list of discovery profiles.
Define discovery schedules
Define the recurrence pattern of the discovery schedule based on the following fields:
Schedule | Options |
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Hourly | After every: Set the time interval after how many hours you want your devices to be scanned. |
Daily |
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Weekly |
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Monthly |
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Scan your resources manually
- Go to Setup > Resources and select Discovery and Deployment.
- From the Discovery and Deployment page, select the name of the Discovery Profile from the list.
- From the discovery profile details page, click Scan now.
Discovery of the resources defined in the Discovery Profile is started. The page then expands to display all the discovered devices with details.
View discovery resources
- Go to Infrastructure > Resources.
- Click the Discovered folder. All the resources with details are displayed irrespective of the type of resource.
By default, the discovered resources are in unmanaged state. The resources are categorized after they are managed.