Reset Discovery Data
When Discovery processes execute, they collect information on discovered devices and store this information in the Reporting Database. When you reset the Discovery data, you purge all this information from the Reporting Database and reset the Client Protection Summary report. The data re-populates the next time the Discovery processes run.
Consider resetting your Discovery data if any of the following conditions are true:
• If your initial Discovery policy was too broad, and included devices that were in a DHCP range. This policy configuration could result in potentially large numbers of IP addresses showing up in the Client Protection Summary report thereby diminishing the effectiveness of the report.
• If previously discovered clients no longer exist in your environment, but are still showing in the Client Protection Summary report.
• If a file system on a previously discovered client had subsequently been removed, and is still showing up in the Client Protection Summary report.
By resetting the Discovery data, you can start over and rebuild a fresh list of discovered devices and file systems. A reset only impacts the Client Protection Summary report. A reset does not affect any of the other collected backup data that is used in all other reports.