The initial scan you perform will be without credentials, the user name and password details that enable you to log in to hosts on the network. This will give you an idea of potential hosts that can be discovered. You must choose the IP range to scan.
Login as the discovery user. To do this, enter the discovery user name and password and click Login.
- Click the Discovery tab.
The Discovery page is displayed.
- Add a new discovery run. To do this, click the Add New Run... button. The Add a New Run window is displayed.
- Enter the details for the IP addresses you want to scan. You can do this as a single address, or a range, a range using wildcards, or a comma separated list, for example, 172.17.1.1 or 172.17.1.1-5 or 172.17.1.* or 172.17.1.1, 172.17.1.2, 172.17.1.3. You can also enter a subnet, for example 172.17.1.0/24.
- Enter a label for the scan. This label is used to refer to the Discovery Run in the UI.
- In this example the following run has been used:
- Range - 172.17.3.*
- Level - Full Discovery
- Label - First Test Scan.
- Click OK to add the run.
The Discovery page is refreshed to show the new run. The run will not commence until you click the START ALL SCANS button. The START ALL SCANS button is grayed out if you have more than 30 hosts in your datastore. To re-enable scanning you must destroy some or all of the hosts in your datastore. See Destroying Data for more information.
- Click the START ALL SCANS button.
When the scan is complete the Discovery Page is refreshed to show that the run has completed. You can see this by clicking the Recent Runs tab.
- Click the STOP ALL SCANS button.
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