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Figure 29: Discovery Results window
You can perform multiple Add operations from the Discovery results window, so you can discover a
wide range of devices in one operation, and then add them in small sets based on which devices use
common contact information, or how you want to place them in device groups. For example, in
Figure 29, a set of devices that all use SNMPv3 have been selected to be added in one Add operation.
Each time you add a set of devices, EPICenter updates the information shown in the discovery results
section to indicate the devices that are now already in the database. The top two rows in the example in
Figure 29 show devices that have already been added. The Discovery Results will continue to be
displayed after an Add operation has finished, until you close the window.
When you click Add, EPICenter presents the default contact information and device group it will use,
and gives you an opportunity to either confirm it or change it as appropriate. You can change what
EPICenter uses as its defaults—see "Setting up Default Device Contact Information" on page 35, or refer
to the online Help for the Discovery applet for more information.
If you want to add devices into specific device groups rather than into the Default device group, you
must create those device groups before you do the discovery. If you do not have device groups set up
ahead of time, however, you can easily create additional device groups and move your newly-added
devices into them later. If you have devices already in the inventory database, you can add devices to a
new device group as you create it.

Adding Devices Individually

If you want to add an individual device, and you know its IP address, you can simply add it through
the interactive Add Devices and Device Groups dialog. The fields in this dialog will be pre-filled with
the default contact information, so adding a device can be as simple as just typing its IP address.
However, you can also change any of the device contact values as appropriate, as well as selecting the
device group to which the device should be added.
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