Navigate to:

  • web client: Asset Management > Discovery > Assets > (add or edit a Asset Discovery job).

On the Information tab, define the directory or network information for the discovery job.

Table 87: Discovery Type
Property Description
Discovery Type

Choose a type of discovery:

  • Asset

  • Directory

  • Network

  • StarlingAgent

If you select Directory, directory assets that are shared can be discovered into any partition. Directories include Active Directory or LDAP. See Directories that can be searched in Supported platforms.

To share a directory asset, select Available for discovery across all partitions for the asset; see Management tab (add asset). If the check box is not selected, the asset is not shared and the asset will only be discovered into the partitions to which the directory asset is assigned.

Table 88: Discovery: Information properties for Asset scans
Property Description

ESX Host (RegEx)

Enter a value to limit the search to selected ESX hosts that match this regular expression.

NOTE: This is only supported for the VCenter platform.

Asset

Select an asset in the current partition to run the Asset Discovery job. An asset is only available for selection if the platform supports Local Asset Discovery.

Ignore If Not Running

Select this check box to limit the search to virtual machines that are currently running.

Table 89: Discovery: Information properties for Directory scans
Property Description
Directory

Select the Directory on which to run the Asset Discovery job.

Table 90: Discovery: Information properties for Network scans
Property Description
Enable OS Detection

This check box is selected by default, indicating that OS fingerprinting is to be used to detect the operation system being used. Clear this check box if you do not want to use the OS fingerprinting process.

Starting IP Address

Enter a starting IPv4 address. All IPv4 addresses between this IPv4 address and the IPv4 address entered in the Ending IP Address field will be included in the discovery.

NOTE: IPv6 scans are not supported.

Ending IP Address

Enter an ending IPv4 address. All IPv4 addresses between this IPv4 address and the IPv4 address entered in the Starting IP Address field will be included in the discovery.

NOTE: IPv6 scans are not supported.

Exclude IP

SPP allows you to exclude an IP address within a specified IPv4 range from the scan.

Click  Add to exclude an IP address from the scan.

Click  Delete to remove the corresponding excluded IPv4 address and include that IP address in the scan.