Discovery Task moves to Finished status Immediately with 0 Devices Found

  • 7015880
  • 11-Nov-2014
  • 11-Nov-2014

Environment

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management 11 Discovery

Situation

  • A Discovery task is run
  • The task goes to a Finished status immediately or within a few seconds
  • 0 devices are found by the task
  • No errors are seen in the loader-messages.log

Resolution

  1. Go to ZCC > Configuration > Discovery and Deployment > Discovery > IP Addresses to be Excluded
  2. Select and remove IP Ranges that conflict with the Discovery task with 0 results
  3. Click Apply or OK
  4. Run the Discovery task again

Additional Information

It is also possible that a Discovery task could return fewer results than expected for this same reason.