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title: "Running Network Discovery"
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A primary application for NetMRI is discovering the network and all its infrastructure devices.

NetMRI’s discovery features perform a crucial task, which is to locate and categorize all devices on a previously unmanaged network. By providing a high-level view of all devices in a network with which NetMRI can communicate, discovery enables managers to begin controlling a complex network topology, and drill down to individual devices to diagnose communication problems encountered during discovery.

You can define basic discovery settings during system setup (discussed in detail in <span style="color: #0000ff">[*<u>Running the Setup Wizard</u>*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42075572)</span>), or manually perform discovery using a series of straightforward steps. The following section [*<span style="color: #003366"><u>Discovery with a New NetMRI Deployment</u></span>*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42402234) describes how to manually configure and run discovery.

If you are migrating your NetMRI platform to the current release, see <span style="color: #0000ff">[*<u>Discovery with an Existing NetMRI Platform</u>*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42076322)</span>.

Running Network Discovery

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> ⚠️ Infrastructure devices are devices that form the network infrastructure. See [*<u>Infrastructure Devices List</u>*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42402009) for currently supported devices.