Launching discovery

Now that you have configured your discovery settings, the next step is to manually start your initial discoveries using the Discovery Status GUI.

About this task

You can launch a discovery in any of the following ways:
  • Manually launching a discovery.
  • Scheduling discovery to launch automatically on a regular basis.

Once you are satisfied with the results of your discovery, then you will probably want to schedule regular discoveries. For the moment, we are still running initial discoveries and tuning the discovery configuration based on the results, so the next step is to launch discovery manually.

Procedure

  1. Click the Discovery icon and select Network Discovery Status.
  2. View the Discovery Status GUI that displays.
    In the Discovery Status GUI, you can launch your discovery and monitor progress. The Monitoring section of the Discovery Status GUI displays a table with the four discovery phases:
    • Interrogating Devices
    • Resolving Addresses
    • Downloading Connections
    • Correlating Connections
    The Discovery Type label at the top right informs you that discovery is not running.
    Note: If you access this GUI while a discovery is running, for example, a regularly scheduled discovery, even if you did not start the discovery yourself, you would be able to monitor the running discovery.
  3. From the Domain list, select the required domain.
  4. Click Start Discovery Start Discovery combo button. Can be used to start partial or full discovery.
  5. Check that discovery starts okay.
    To do this, check the following:
    • The Discovery Type label shows the text Discovery starting and displays the running icon Starting, In progress, or Refreshing.
    • The Last status received label shows the text Discovery starting.
    • After a short time, the Interrogating Devices phase displays Starting, In progress, or Refreshing running status and the Elapsed Time Current column shows a time counter for this phase.

Results

You have now manually launched discovery. The next step is to monitor discovery progress.