Dell OpenManage Network Manager Quick Reference Manual page 19

Auth(s) (validated authentication credentials), and the Auth Status that lets you know whether a
device is ready to discover, or has missing or invalid auths. In this last case of missing or invalid
credentials, you can click the Change Authentication icon.
From left to right, the icons let you select all devices for discovery, unselect them, select and
unselect a single device, and change authentications. When you click Change Authentication, a
screen like Select Devices for Discovery screen appears. Use this screen to repair or replace
invalid authentications.
All available authentications appear, with those connected to the device selected appearing
checked. You can Add, Select Edit, and re-order these with the buttons above the list.
If you click Test, OpenManage Network Manager tests the selected authentication on the
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selected device. A green check icon appears next to working authentications, a red octagon
appears next to those that fail, the yellow triangle icon indicates partial success—an option with
multiple targets and authentications.
Click Apply after you have corrected or modified any invalid authentications with the Change
Authentications button, or click Close to close this panel without modification. Notice that you
can also change ports, timeouts and retries in the existing authentications with Edit.
After you have configured what is necessary in this screen, you can click the Back button to
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return to discovery setup (in Resource Discovery or Options) or click the Discover button.
Discover. Clicking the Discover button actually executes the discovery you have configured,
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storing the information retrieved from devices in the OpenManage Network Manager database.
Clicking this button displays a standard OpenManage Network Manager audit screen. This
displays the messages between OpenManage Network Manager and the discovered devices,
including the post-discovery activities. Select a message in the top of the screen to see the time
and date it occurred in mid-screen, and the contents of some messages in the Message Details
panel at the bottom of this screen. See the User Guide's discussion of Audit Trails for details of
how to revisit this screen after discovery is complete.
You can click Close at any time. If you click it before the Equipment Discovery Finished
message appears, discovery continues in the background.
The final discovery panel, whether appearing for a Resource Discovery Profile or at the end of
the a conventional basic / advanced discovery process presents asynchronous information. If you
click Finish before the process is done, the discovery process still continues. While that is
occurring you may not see elements being discovered in their resync schedule until the discovery
job is actually complete. Executing scheduled resync while discovery is still ongoing may result
in exceptions.
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