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Consolidating devices

The Integration Service and the BMC PATROL Agent discover devices and send detailed information about these devices to the Infrastructure Management Server. You can view this information in the All Devices page of the operator console.

If the same device is monitored and discovered by multiple PATROL Agents, then each PATROL Agent informs the the Infrastructure Management Server that it has discovered the device as shown in the following figure.

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However, the Infrastructure Management Server is able to detect that the same device has been discovered by various PATROL Agents. Therefore, in the All Devices page, If the same device has been discovered by multiple PATROL Agents, Infrastructure Management does not display the device each time it is discovered. Instead, it displays the device only once in the Device Name column. But, in the Agent column, it uses the count mechanism to display the number of agents that have discovered the device.

You can click the count link to view all the agents that have discovered the device.

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