To manage the servers and workstations in your environment from the Control Center console, you first need to identify the computers and the applications on them that need to be monitored. The process by which AppManager is made aware of the computers and applications you want to monitor is called discovery.
Discovery typically involves the following tasks:
Installing the AppManager agent on the server or workstation you want to manage.
Adding the server or workstation to the master view of a QDB.
Running one or more specialized Discovery Knowledge Scripts from a management group based on the Master view.
When you manage Windows computers, the Deployment Server performs all of these scenarios for you, if the management server and QDB server are running and you have network access to them.
You can also run Discovery Knowledge Scripts at any time after you add servers and workstations to a view. Run Discovery Knowledge Scripts from a management group that is based on the Master view.
For more information about running Knowledge Scripts on managed resources, see Section 5.0, Running Monitoring Jobs.