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The next section, Manage Discovery, allows you to configure options for discovering instances. You can specify those computers where you want IDERA SQL Inventory Manager to discover SQL Server instances and choose which methods you want to use to search in each computer. To find more information about these settings, go to How to Manage Discovery Options.

Add Instances

The next section, Add Instances, allows you to determine how you would like to initially choose the instances you want to monitor. You need to register SQL Server instances in order to monitor them with IDERA SQL Inventory Manager.

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• use the Add Instance wizard, which takes you to a wizard where you can manually pick those instances you want to monitor, specify which connection credentials IDERA SQL Inventory Manager will use to connect to them, add owner, location, comments, and tags. For more information about the Add Instance wizard, see Add SQL Server instances.
• select from a list of discovered instances. This option takes you directly to the Discovered section on the Instances view. From this section, you can pick which instances you wish to monitor and which ones you wish to ignore. For more information about selecting instances from the Instances view, see Discovered instances  .
• monitor all discovered instances. This option lets you easily register all discovered instances.

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