discovery

The act of scanning your environment for configuration data.

BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping

Discovery is driven by reasoning, which infers detailed information about hosts and programs and populates the datastore. See also Reasoning Engine.

BMC Server Automation

Discovery creates components by associating component templates with servers.

BMC Capacity Optimization

Discovery identifies the computers with Perform Agents in your network so you can add them to your policy. You can use auto discovery or manual discovery.