Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - DISCOVERY-DEPLOYMENT-RETIREMENT REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Deployment Manual page 28

When a discovery task runs, the ZENworks Server creates a discovery request for each IP address
and discovery technology (WMI, WinAPI, MAC Address, NMAP, ZENworks, SNMP, SSH) used.
For example, if you specify one IP address and use all seven discovery technologies, the ZENworks
Server initiates seven discovery requests. Therefore, the more IP addresses you specify and the more
discovery processes you use, the longer the discovery task takes to complete. For fastest results, you
should create tasks that target smaller ranges of IP addresses and, if possible, assign different
ZENworks Servers to process the tasks.
1 In ZENworks Control Center, click the Deployment tab.
2 In the Discovery Tasks panel, click New to launch the New Discovery Task Wizard.
3 Complete the wizard by using information from the following table to fill in the fields.
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