About this task
You can discover the switches by using an IP address or an IP range. To discover switches, provide the switch IP address and the device credential profile of the switch. When you are discovering switches by using an IP range, specify an IP (IPv4) range (within a subnet) by including the start and end IP address in the range.
To discover a network switch by using OMIMSSC:
Steps
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In the left pane of the SCOM console, select
Monitoring.
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Expand
, and then select
Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Dashboard.
The OMIMSSC login page is displayed in the working pane.
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Enter credentials to log in to OMIMSSC. Enter the username in the format:
domain\username.
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In the left pane, select
, and then click
Discover.
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In the
Discover dialog box:
- To discover multiple network switches by using a range of IP addresses, on the
Discovery using an IP Range or IP Address Range:
- Enter the IP address range.
- To exclude IP addresses from getting discovered, select the
Enable Exclude Range check box and enter the IP address range to exclude.
- To discover a network switch by using its IP address:
- In the
Network Switch IP Address box, enter an IP address of the network switch to discover.
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From the
Apply this Credential Profile drop-down menu, select the device credential profile that must be used for discovering the device. To create a device credential profile, click
Create New. See
Create Device Credential Profile.
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To view the status of this job, select the
Go to the Job list check box.
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Enter a job name for this discovery task.
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Click
Finish.
A discovery job is created and started, and the discovered network switches are listed on the
Network Switch View page.