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title: "Creating Discovery Services"
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After you deploy a NIOS-X server, you must associate a Discovery service instance with the server before you can configure discovery properties for Universal Asset Insights. For information about Universal Asset Insights, see *[About Universal Asset Insights](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UniversalAssetInsights/pages/1501397303)*.

> ⚠️ Discovery service cannot co-exist with other services. A new Discovery service cannot be added to a NIOS-X server if any other service is already running on it (including another Discovery service). You cannot add other services to a NIOS-X server if it already had a Discovery service running on it.
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> ⚠️  If you need to deploy other services, you will need to also deploy other NIOS-X servers to run them on.

To create a Discovery service and associate it with a NIOS-X server, do the following:

1. Log in to the Infoblox Portal.
2. Go to **Network > Services & Servers > Protocol Service**.
3. Click **Create Service**.
4. From the drop down menu, select **Discovery**.
5. In the **Create Discovery** wizard, do the following:

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