Stopping/Restarting A Discovery Process; Stop Discovery In Progress - Patton electronics FORESIGHT 6300 User Manual

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Stopping/Restarting a Discovery Process

You may want to stop a discovery cycle that is already in process to add or modify a network or set of devices.

Note

To stop/restart a discovery in progress:

1. Click on Tools > Discovery Administration at the top of the screen. Then, click on Discover Patton

Devices in the menu tree of the Discovery window.

2. Click on the Start/Stop Discovery tab. Select the network that you want to edit from the drop-down

menu. If the network is able to be paused in the discovery process, the Start Discovery and Stop Discovery

buttons will be lit.

3. A message will display in the Discovery Status area that discovery is currently disabled for the network.

4. Make the desired changes in the Network Discovery and/or Protocol tabs and click Apply.

5. Return to the Start/Stop Discovery tab. Select the network from the drop-down mneu and click Start

Discovery. The discovery process will continue.

You cannot use the stop/restart discovery feature if the discovery pro-

cess has already completed. This feature is only for discovery cycles

that are in progress.

Figure 21. Stop Discovery in progress

2 • Discovering Your Network

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