Configure host discovery policies to populate the host discovery and collection view

Host Discovery begins with a Discovery Policy, which identifies the Data Collector that will gather information about hosts in your environment. In addition, a policy has an associated set of credentials, WMI proxies, and paths to access commands on the hosts.

See Host resources prerequisites and configurations.

See Host discovery and collection configuration steps.

A Discovery Policy typically is used once to initially populate your host inventory. Executing a discovery policy more than once has no effect for hosts that were previously discovered. To identify and resolve connectivity issues refer to the following.

See Validate host connectivity.

Although all hosts can be included in a single policy, you might want to create one or more Host Discovery Policies in the following recommended groupings: