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title: "Disabling Discovery for a Network"
canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/nios90/280273243/Disabling%20Discovery%20for%20a%20Network"
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You go to the DHCP feature under **Data** **Management** to disable discovery for a network. Disabling discovery for a network differs from discovery blackouts; disabling discovery for a network simply ensures that discovery never takes place on the chosen network.  
To disable discovery for an IP network:

1. Select a managed network from one of the following locations:
  1. **Data** **Management** **–>** **IPAM** **–>** list view
  2. **Data** **Management** **–>** **DHCP** **–>** **Networks**
2. Click the Action icon
  next to the network you want (this automatically selects it) and select **Edit** from the menu. The Network editor appears.
3. Click the **Discovery** tab.
4. Child networks inherit their discovery default settings from their parent networks. Click **Override** to change the **Enable** **Discovery** setting. (The **Discovery** **Member** setting remains unchanged.)
5. Deselect the **Enable** **Discovery** checkbox, and then save the configuration.