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With OpenManage Enterprise server-initiated discovery, all we had to do was upload a file containing the servers’ service tags and credentials. With manual, network scan- based discovery, we had to enter the credentials and the known IP addresses of the target systems and wait for the management console to connect with and complete the discovery process. We also found that deploying profiles on the servers was faster and easier using the template-based OpenManage Enterprise profile deployment tool than it was with a manual method.
Figure 1: Time and effort required to find three servers with known IP addresses and deploy template-based baseline server profiles.
Source: Principled Technologies.