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Chapter 3: Basic Operations 17
To discover an appliance by IP address:
1. Select Tools - Discover from the AVWorks Explorer menu. The Discover
Wizard appears. Click Next to continue.
2. The Address Range page appears. Type the range of IP addresses to search
on the network in the To and From boxes. Use the IP address dot notation
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Click Next to continue.
3. The Searching Network progress bar appears. If one or more new appliances
are discovered, the Wizard shows the Select Appliances to Add page. From
this page, you can choose the appliances to add to the local database.
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If no new appliances were found (or if you clicked Stop), the Wizard will
show the No New Appliances Found page and you will need to add the
switch manually. For more information, see the previous procedures.
4. Click on an appliance to add and click the Add (>) icon to move the
selection to the Appliances to Add list.
5. Repeat step 4 for all appliances you wish to add. Click Next to continue.
6. The Adding Appliances progress bar appears while the new switches are
being added. Once all of the switches have been added to the local
database, the Discover Wizard Completed page appears. Click Finish to
exit the Wizard and return to the main window. Your new switch should
now be in the Unit Selector pane.
The Discover Wizard will not automatically fi nd servers attached to the
appliance. After running the Discover Wizard, you must click the Resync button
in the Appliance Management Panel to fi nd servers attached to the appliance.
For more information, see Resynchronizing the server listing in Chapter 4.
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If one or more appliances could not be added to the local database for any
reason (including if you clicked Stop during the add process), the Discover
Wizard Not All Appliances Added page appears. This page will list all of
the appliances that you selected and the status for each. The status will
indicate if an appliance was added to the local database and if not, why
the process failed. Click Done when you are fi nished reviewing the list.
NOTE: If an appliance already exists in the database with the same IP address as a discovered
unit, then the discovered unit will be ignored and will not display on the next Wizard page.
Accessing an Appliance
When you click the Appliances button, you will see a list of the appliances
currently defined in the local database. To access an appliance, you must first
log into it by typing in a username and password. Once you have logged in to