Configure host Discovery policies to populate the host Inventory
Host Discovery begins with a Discovery Policy, which identifies the Data Collector that will gather information about hosts in your environment. In addition, a policy has an associated set of credentials, WMI proxies, and paths to access commands on the hosts. For additional prerequisite details,:
A Discovery Policy typically is used once to initially populate your host inventory. Executing a discovery policy more than once has no effect for hosts that were previously discovered. To identify and resolve connectivity issues refer to the following:
See Validate host connectivity.
Although all hosts can be included in a single policy, you might want to create one or more Host Discovery Policies in the following recommended groupings:
by OS (Windows or Linux) - This grouping is essential, as the probes and parameters are OS-specific.
by common attributes, such as User ID, password, access control commands (sudo, pbrun, sesudo), PATH
by application, such as Oracle or Exchange