How to Run Inventory Discovery

This high level task describes how to run Inventory Discovery in your environment.

1. Prerequisites

   • Ensure that UCMDB is running.
   • Ensure that the Data Flow Probe server is running.
   • (For Zone-based discovery only) Ensure that you have discovered the infrastructure in your management zones. To do this, see How to Run Zone-based Discovery.
2. Run inventory discovery

   Select one of the following methods to run inventory discovery:

   • (Recommended) Zone-based. Use a Discovery Activity to run in specific Management Zones. For more information, see "Inventory Discovery Activity" in the Discovery Activities section of the Content Help.
   • Manual. Use any third party software packages to run inventory discovery. For more information, see How to Run Inventory Discovery Manually.
3. Results

   To verify the discovery ran successfully, select the Management Zone in the Management Zones tree. In the Discovery Status pane, click the Results tab.

   Note If you are not using Management Zones, click the Inventory Discovery job.

   For user interface details, see Discovery Results Tab/Pane.

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