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Before you can exploit the software and make inventories, you need to discover the network where you are connected.
Discover toolbar
Click on the 'Network discovery' button Discover in the main toolbar (see opposite) or right click on the networks treeview and select 'Discover the network ...' in the contextual menu.
Select organization
First, indicate a new organization or select an existing organization. By default, the current organization is selected.
The assets detected during the discovery will be synchronized to this organization.
Then, click 'OK'.

InfoIf the network treeview is empty at the startup, Invent Upshot ask you to do a discovery.
In case you are not connected to a network, only your computer will be added to the treeview.

 

Discover
Start the discovery
Click the 'Start' button Start to run the automatically scan of the connected network. You can choose to exclude the discovery of the shared resources and the reading of the MAC adresses by selecting the corresponding line into the dropdown menu of the 'Start' button.
All the domains, workgroups, assets and shared ressources (if choosen) found are added in the discover treeview with some data (comments, IP and MAC address if choosen) and checked. The new items, that are not found in the selected organization of the networks treeview, are marked with a symbol 'plus' New item in the icon. Moreover, the real-time monitoring of the process is displaying in the status bar of the window.


Suspend and stop the discovery
When the discovery process is running, you can stop it by clicking the 'Stop' button Stop or suspend it by clicking the 'Suspend' button Suspend. In this state, you can resume the process by clicking one more time the 'Suspend' button or stop it by clicking the 'Stop' button Stop.
Discover apply
Apply the discovery
When the discovery process is finished, you can expand / collapse the nodes manually or automatically by selecting the desired level into the dropdown menu of the 'Tools' button Tools. With this button, you can also print and export the discover treeview in DOC, HTML or TXT formats.
At last, when you click the 'Apply' button Apply, all the checked items of the treeview are synchronized (added or modified) with the selected organization of the networks treeview. A window shows you the result of the synchronization.

InfoYou cannot exceed the limiting number of 'Computer' nodes included in the license that you bought. You can checked the state after synchronization with the counter indicated in the bottom right of the statusbar ...

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