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Setting Computer Scan discovery options

The Private Network tab on in the Discovery Center Options section allows you to use the Computer scan to obtain a list of machines based on IP ranges or domains. You can set your preferred schedule for a Computer scan daily or weekly. If you choose a Daily schedule, then set the a specific time for the discovery job. If you set a Weekly schedule, specify the days of the week and the time when the scan will be performed.

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Use this section to specify those IP address ranges where IDERA SQL Inventory Manager will run scheduled discovery jobs. Users with large environments may choose to exclude certain domains for ad hoc or scheduled scans. These domains are excluded from all scans, whether computer, browser, ODBC, or BI Services.

On In this section, you can:

• Click Add and enter the IP address ranges that you want IDERA SQL Inventory Manager to take into account for discovery jobs. You need to specify the type of account that IDERA SQL Inventory Manager will use to gather host computer information. Select Enable on those IP address ranges where IDERA SQL Inventory Manager will run the scheduled jobs.
• Click Edit to change the IP address ranges you entered before to edit their credentials, the IP range information, or enable/disable them for scheduled jobs.
• Click Remove to delete any available IP address ranges.
• Additionally, you can select those IP addresses where you want to run an immediate scan. After selecting your IP addresses, click Run scan Now.

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You can Edit/Remove the domains you entered before. You can also select those domains that you want to scan immediately by clicking Run scan now. To add a domain, click Add on the in the Domain section.

The Discovery Center Options allows allow you to add domains for discovering SQL Server instances. Go to the Domain section, click Add, and specify DNS Name, the domain name with the account that will be used to connect to this domain (User and Password). Select Enable this rule/scan as part of the scheduled computer scan if you want IDERA SQL Inventory Manager to use the domain for running scheduled jobs.

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If you exclude a parent domain, then all its children are also excluded from the scan.

If you exclude a domain which that is a subdomain of an included domain, then all the excluded domain's children are excluded from the scan.

Discovery Scan type

There are three types of scan available:

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The scan runs through all domains, sub-domaindomains, and other trusted domains.

Specified And Sub

The scan runs trough through the specified domain and its sub-domains.

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When this option is enabled, SQL Inventory Manager discovers both instances and BI services. However, the discovery of BI services is only possible when there's an a specified IP range or domain and a scan type.

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Choose the methods you want to you use when scanning each computer for SQL Server instances. IDERA SQL Inventory Manager allows you to choose from:

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When you select TCP Probe, you have to must specify the ports that IDERA SQL Inventory Manager will use to scan. Not Note that TCP ports are only used for discovering SQL Server instances discovery and does do not include discovering BI Services discovery.

If you want to include BI Services in scans, check Include Discovery of BI Services in Scans. This checkbox is selected by default. For more information about BI Services, see Viewing BI Services.

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Choose whether to Log into instances or not and the way how you want IDERA SQL Inventory Manager to display the results:

• Log into SQL Instances
  When this option is enabled, SQL Inventory Manager attempts to connect to discovered SQL Server Instances to gather information such as Version and Edition. Go to Manage Discovery Credentials to make sure valid credentials are present.
  
• Only shows instances whose SQL Server version can be validated
  When this option is enabled, SQL Inventory Manager only displays Instances that can be validated.
• Only show instances discovered by at least two methods
  When this option is enabled, SQL Inventory Manager only displays instances discovered with using two different methods.