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Discovery Profiles | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager
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icon displays the authentication selection panel. The yellow dot on the Fix it icon means an
optional authentication is missing. A red dot means a required one is missing.
When authentications are unsuccessful, you can remove or edit them in this editor too. Click
the icons to the right of listed authentications to do this.
When they test successfully, the authentications appear in a nested tree under the
Discover
checkbox (checked when they test successfully).
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Save— Click Save to preserve the profile. You can then right-click it to select Execute and
begin discovery . If you select Execute from the profile editor, Dell OpenManage Network
Manager does not save the profile to execute later.
Results
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Execute —Clicking Execute begins discovery, confirm you do not mind waiting, and the
message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and the device appears on the
Results screen.
This is a standard Audit screen. See Audit Trail / Jobs Screen on page 91 for more about it.
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A message ( Discovery Profile Execute is complete ) appears in the Messages at the bottom left
of the status bar.
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You can also schedule discovery profiles to run periodically, updating your Dell OpenManage Network
Manager database with any network changes. For more, see Schedules on page 95.
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The devices in your network now appear in the Managed Resources portlet, and elsewhere (in
Topology, for example).
See Discovery Profiles on page 153 for more about these capabilities.