Discover, Learn, Add, and Match
The manager views, such as the Station Manager - Database view, provide a way to find network modules and devices, and add them to the system database. The system runs this discovery
action as a two-step job.
- First step: The system discovers (learns) device candidates for inclusion in the system database.
- Second step: The system presents a list of candidates from which you manually select and add modules and devices to the database.
If you already added devices to the database using a New window, the discover process lets you match found candidates to existing
device records.
NOTE: You do not need to use discovery if you already added a device. If the device shows a valid status, {ok}, in the Database pane, it is already on line and discovery is not necessary.
The result of the discovery job is a table view, where each row represents a unique module or device.
Figure 10. Network Discovery view after discover job
- The Database pane (top pane) lists the devices or modules that are currently part of the system database. You can double-click an item in this pane to open to its edit view.
- The Discovered pane (bottom pane) lists the modules or devices that the discovery job found on the network.