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title: "Overriding Device Names and Types in the Device Viewer"
canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/NetMRIAdminG752/41911963/Overriding%20Device%20Names%20and%20Types%20in%20the%20Device%20Viewer"
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During device discovery, NetMRI determines the Management IP address, device name, and device type and displays those values in several locations in the UI, including the **Network** **Explorer** > **Discovery** page and the Config Explorer (**Configuration** **Management** > **Config** **Explorer**). Once those values are discovered, should any of those values change at some point in network operation, NetMRI detects those changes and modifies the appropriate values in its database.

If the system admin changes the **Name** or **Type** of device in the Device Viewer's General Settings page (**Device** **Viewer**  > **Settings** **&** **Status** > **General** **Settings**), re-discovery of that device's settings will no longer be active. For more information, see *<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>Viewing</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>and</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>Changing</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>General </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>**<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>Settings</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>for</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>a</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>Device</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154/Inspecting+Devices+in+the+Network#InspectingDevicesintheNetwork-bookmark488)</span>*.

To revert to the auto-discovery of changes to that device's identifying information in the network, you can delete the device from the **Discovered** **Devices** list in the **Network** **Explorer** > **Discovery** tab. The device is removed from the table. You will need to wait for NetMRI to re-discover the device on the network and then refresh or re-open the **Network** **Explorer** > **Discovery** tab to view the updated information. Click the device group name in the right panel if you need to locate the updated device in its expected group.

> ⚠️ **Note**
> ⚠️ 
> ⚠️ For more information about Device Viewer functions, see *<span style="color: #0000ff">[Inspecting](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Devices](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[in](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[the](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Network](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/41911154)</span>and its subsections.