Hi,

Network discovery is a setting which allows your server to be visible to other servers. So, it makes sense to enable it on the servers. It is more of a firewall setting.

You can get more information about network discovery @http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-is-network-discovery#1TC=windows-7

Hi Pupul,

I understand Network Discovery allows other Windows based servers/computers to see each other on the network, but what benefits does this have with OME specifically? Am I losing functionality with OME by leaving this setting disabled?

Thanks!

W.

W.

To be honest I can't recall myself the history of this setting.  I thought that it was something you had to do on the OME server itself in the Windows OS settings in order to enable SNMP based discovery.

If you do _not_ have this setting on your OME box and you are still able to discover and inventory servers via SNMP, then I suppose you are ok :)

Feel free to do some experiments and report back!

Thanks,

Rob