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When the NAS appliance or share is successfully added to Data Manager, all NAS asset sources are listed on the asset sources section as shown in this section. By default, initial discovery is done automatically when the NAS asset source is added and when subsequent discoveries are either manual or scheduled. Using the Schedule Discovery option (see the section Adding a NAS share to Data ManagerAdding a NAS share to Data Manager), a full discovery at a certain time every day can be scheduled on a given time. At any time, an on-demand discovery of the assets can be done using the Discover option.
Note: The discovery status of generic NAS asset sources is displayed as Unknown.
After a successful discovery, a list of the NAS assets that are discovered from the appliance is displayed. The discovery time is based on the network bandwidth and number of assets on the NAS appliance.
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