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You can later change these settings on the Administration tab and access the Auto registration options for specifying which SQL Server versions you want to exclude from auto registration, for more information go to Auto registration options.
The next section, Manage Discovery, allows you to configure options for discovering instances. You can specify those specify those computers where you want 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.
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 SQL Inventory Manager.
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- Using 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 SQL Inventory Manager will use to connect to them, add owner, location, comments, and tags. For more information, refer to Adding Add SQL Server instances.
- 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, refer to Discovered instances and Ignored instances respectively.
- Registering all discovered instances - this option lets you initially register all discovered instances.
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Click CANCEL at any point to skip these initial settings.
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