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ADM User's Guide
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Collectors Status
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Detail Discovery Rate
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Detail Discovery Distribution by Policy
I The Detail Discovery tab is visible only to the admin user.
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Plans
You can create Detail Discovery plans from the Detail Discovery > Plans page. This page displays a list of
detail discovery plans, including three built‐in plans:
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Shallow: Discovers operating systems and network configuration.
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Medium: Discovers everything (OS, hardware, software) except services and network connections.
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Deep: Discovers everything, except network connections.
Detail discovery plans are useful when you want to include or exclude the detail discovery of certain hosts,
services, or connections. Navigate to Detail Discovery > Plans > Add Discovery Plan to create your own plan.
Scenarios in which you might want to create a detail discovery plan are as follows:
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The software in your environment changes frequently and the hardware hardly changes. For Detail
Discovery, you want software discovered daily, but hardware information is discovered only once a week.
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You want to exclude the Detail Discovery of hosts with specific host names or operating systems.
N Every Detail Discovery policy has a plan associated with it. Of the three built‐in plans, Deep is the
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default plan for Detail Discovery policies. The changes made to the plan take effect the next time that the CIs
within the policy scope are discovered.
The Discovery Plan Definition screen is shown below.
Policies
You can initiate Detail Discovery after creating a Detail Discovery Policy from the Detail Discovery > Policies
page. To maximize security and minimize the risk of impact on the managed network, only admin users control
the setup and scheduling of detail discovery policies.
Detail Discovery policies describe a query that runs periodically to collect network information. Each policy
defines the following parameters:
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The protocol to use (SNMP, SSH, Telnet, WMI, or VI‐SDK), as well as the authentication parameters
required for the specified protocol
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A schedule for running the policy
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The scope (a named group or IP address range) of hosts to query
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