Discovery Scopes
Use this page to create or edit a discovery Scope.
Select Discovery Option
Select a discovery
option.
- Single IP address or Host - Specify a single IP address to discover.
- Range of IP addresses - Specify an IP address range to discover.
- Network or Subnet - Specify the IP address of the network along with its subnet mask.
Describe Address or Host
Specify the required information for the discovering a single IP address.
- IP address:
- Specify the IP address of the system that you want to discover.
Describe Address Range
Specify the required information for the IP range discovery.
- 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.
- Description:
- (Optional) Enter an identifying name for the Scope. For example: MyScope.
Describe Network or Subnet
Specify the required information for the network or subnet.
- IP address:
- Specify the IP address of the network or subnet that you want to discover.
- Mask:
- Specify the subnet mask of the network that you want to discover.
- Description:
- (Optional) 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.
- Host
-
- Specify the IP address of the host that you want to exclude from the discovery.
- (Optional) In the second text box, you can enter a description for the excluded host.
- Range
-
- Specify the first IP address in the range that you want to exclude from the discovery.
- Specify the last IP address in the range that you want to exclude from the discovery.
- (Optional) Enter a description for the excluded IP addresses.
- Subnet
-
- Specify the IP address of the subnet that you want to exclude from the discovery.
- (Optional) 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.
- Click
to delete an existing exclusion.
- 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.