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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 [*Running the Setup Wizard*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/netmri754/pages/193626757)), or manually perform discovery using a series of straightforward steps. The following section [*Discovery with a New NetMRI Deployment*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/netmri754/pages/143294519) describes how to manually configure and run discovery.

If you are migrating your NetMRI platform to the current release, see [*Discovery with an Existing NetMRI Platform*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/netmri754/pages/143130650).

Running Network Discovery

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> ⚠️ Infrastructure devices are devices that form the network infrastructure. See [*Infrastructure Devices List*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/netmri754/pages/105949780) for currently supported devices.