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  1. Home
  2. IT Analytics Help
  3. Section X. Storage (Capacity)
  4. Configuration of Host inventory
  5. Configure host Discovery policies to populate the host Inventory
  6. Configure a Discovery policy

Configure a Discovery policy

Note:

A Discovery Policy typically is used once to initially populate your host inventory. Executing a discovery policy more than once has no effect for the subsequent runs for hosts that have already been discovered and added to the inventory.

For additional information about Host Inventory Discovery and Management,

  • See Before discovering hosts.

  • See Execute and monitor host Discovery.

  • See Validate host connectivity.

  • See Host Inventory search and host Inventory export.

To create/edit Host Discovery Policies, select Admin > Data Collection > Host Inventory

  1. In the Host Inventory toolbar at the top of the browser window, click Discover Hosts.

  2. Add, Edit, or Delete settings using the buttons at the bottom of the window.

  3. Click Add to configure settings and then click OK.

Table: Host Discovery Policy field descriptions.

Field

Description

Sample Values

Name*

Assign a name to identify this Discovery Policy.

Collector*

Select the data collector from the drop-down list

Domain*

Select the IT Analytics Domain from the list; for most environments, only one Domain is displayed. Multiple domains facilitate management for Managed Services Providers (MSPs).

Host addresses*

  • A range of IP addresses can be specified

  • Hostnames and/or IP addresses can be listed, separated by commas

    See Collecting from Clustered SQL server and Oracle applications.

192.168.0.1-250

172.168.1.21, ABChost1, ABChost2, 172.168.1.58

Excludes

List any known IP addresses that you know are not valid for host collection; for example, the IP address of a printer. IP address ranges are also supported.

Configuration options

This list gets populated when you select a Domain at the top of the Host Discovery Policies window.

  • Credentials

  • WMI Proxies

  • Paths

Expand these lists to select the configurations to be used by this Discovery Policy.

Note:

If you choose more than one credential in the list, you risk host authentication failure lock-out. The discovery process will try the first credentials and if they fail, discovery will try the next credentials that you've selected. Therefore, if your hosts are configured to prevent multiple authentication retries, multiple failed attempts may cause a lock-out.

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