Dell OpenManage Network Manager Quick Start Guide 5.0 - Page 8

Discover Your Network, Add Locations

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How To: Add Locations Locations let you manage and view your network by location or branches. To add locations, follow these steps: 1 Find the Locations portlet (typically on the Admin pages). 2 Right-click anywhere in the Locations portlet, and click New. 3 Click Save after entering all required details to save new location. Tip To see a portlet in Expanded rather than Summary mode, click + in the upper right corner. How To: Discover Your Network To begin managing resources in your network, you must discover them to store their information in the application database. This begins either with the Resource Discovery Quick Navigation button or the Discovery Profiles portlet. Discovery profiles configure equipment discovery for Dell OpenManage Network Manager. The summary view displays the Name, Description, Default (the green check indicates the default profile), whether the profile is Scheduled and Next Execution Date for scheduled discovery. Follow these steps to start discovering equipment on your network. 1 Click the Resource Discovery button in Quick Navigation or right-click the Discovery Profiles list and select New. (If you have previously exported profiles, you can Import them. You can also Export Selection, or Export all profiles in this manager. Open an existing profile to edit it.) 6

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How To:
Add Locations
Locations let you manage and view your
network by location or branches. To add
locations, follow these steps:
1
Find the Locations portlet (typically on
the Admin pages).
2
Right-click anywhere in the Locations
portlet, and click
New
.
3
Click Save after entering all required
details to save new location.
Tip
To see a portlet in Expanded rather than Summary mode, click + in the upper right corner.
How To:
Discover Your Network
To begin managing resources in your network, you must discover them to store their information in
the application database. This begins either with the
Resource Discovery
Quick Navigation button
or the
Discovery Profiles
portlet.
Discovery profiles configure
equipment discovery for Dell
OpenManage Network Manager.
The summary view displays the
Name, Description, Default
(the
green check indicates the default
profile), whether the profile is
Scheduled
and
Next Execution
Date
for scheduled discovery.
Follow these steps to start
discovering equipment on your
network.
1
Click the
Resource Discovery
button in Quick Navigation or right-click the Discovery Profiles
list and select
New.
(If you have previously exported profiles, you can
Import
them. You can
also
Export Selection,
or
Export all
profiles in this manager.
Open
an existing profile to edit
it.)