Performing Discovery Operations on Multiple Devices

In the Network Explorer > Discovery table, NetMRI displays data on multiple pages when the number of items to be displayed exceeds the maximum number of items that can appear on one page. Use the navigational buttons at the bottom of the table to page through the display.

You can select multiple rows in a table. For example, in a Windows browser, you can form the following to select multiple rows:

• Click checkboxes adjacent to each other to select contiguous rows.
• Click checkboxes for any row, separated by any number of rows, to select multiple non-contiguous rows.
• Click the checkbox in the Select column of the table header to select all rows on a page, as shown in the figure.

When you click the checkbox in the Select column of the table header, in a table that contains multiple pages, only the rows on the current page are selected. All selected rows are greyed out on the table page, denoting their selection. After you select all rows on a page, you can deselect a specific row by clearing the checkbox for the row. Then, the remaining table rows remain selected.

For Discovery tasks, you can perform the following:

• Click Discover Next to set the selected devices to be the first ones discovered in the next discovery cycle.
• Click Discover Now to immediately re-discover the selected devices.
  Note: To avoid overloading SDN controllers, the Discover Now and Discover Next buttons are disabled for SDN elements.
• Click License to change the license status of all selected devices. For more information, see NetMRI Licensing.
• Click Unmanage to remove the selected devices from management by NetMRI. A prompt appears: Are you sure you want to stop managing the selected xx devices? The chosen devices will be removed from their licensing and NetMRI will add the license allocation to its availability pool.