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Discovery status, Selecting networks, Discovery status -2 – HP TopTools for Hubs and Switches User Manual

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Discovering Your Devices
Beginning Discovery

Figure 4-1. Status Page of Settings for Discovery

Discovery Status

The Status page shows the following information about network discovery:

The date and time the last discovery finished

The number of network objects that have not been processed yet

If discovery is scheduled, how often it is set to run, and when

You can manually start discovery by clicking on the

Start Discovery button at

the top of the page.

Save your settings by clicking on the

Save Settings button.

Selecting Networks

Click on the

Networks tab to select the networks whose component devices

you want to add to the device database. You can specify a range of subnets,
for example, 10.4.8.0 - 10.4.15.0. You can also specify a particular network and
subnet mask. The subnet mask is used to determine the range of addresses in
your network.

To select a network, double click on it in the list of

Known Networks. The box

to the right will be checked and the network added to the list of networks to
search.

To remove a network, double click on the network in the

Known Networks list.