Discovery Scopes
Use this page to create or edit a discovery Scope.
Select Discovery Option
Select a discovery
option.
Note: If you are editing an existing discovery
Scope, you cannot change this field.
Describe the discovery option
Specify the required information for the selected discovery option.
- IP address:
- If you selected the Single IP address or Host discovery option, specify the IP address of the system that you want to discover.
- If you selected the Network or Subnet discovery option, specify the IP address of the network or subnet that you want to discover.
- Starting IP address:
- Specify the starting IP address of the IP address range that you want to discover.
- Ending IP address:
- Specify the ending IP address of the IP address range that you want to discover.
- Mask:
- Specify the subnet mask of the network that you want to discover.
- Description:
- Optionally, enter an identifying name for the Scope. For example: MyScope.
Exclusions
If you specified a range of IP addresses or a network or subnet, you can specify hosts, IP addresses, or subnets to exclude from the discovery. To create an exclusion, click Add Exclusion. You can also edit existing exclusions.
- Host
- In the first text box, specify the IP address of the host that you want to exclude from the discovery.
- In the second text box, you can enter a description for the excluded host.
- Range
- In the first text box, specify the first IP address in the range that you want to exclude from the discovery.
- In the second text box, specify the last IP address in the range that you want to exclude from the discovery.
- In the last text box, you can enter a description for the excluded IP addresses.
- Subnet
- In the first text box, specify the IP address of the subnet that you want to exclude from the discovery.
- In the last text box, you can enter a description for the excluded subnet.
Notes:
- You can specify multiple exclusions, by clicking Add Exclusion multiple times.
- You cannot reuse an IP address, range of IP addresses, subnet, or description in any scopes or exclusions in a Scope Set.
Click Save to save the specified Scope and exclusions.
Click Cancel to exit without saving.