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title: "Configuring IP Discovery"
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You must have read/write permission to Network Discovery to initiate a discovery. After you start a discovery, you cannot change the configuration of the discovery, but you can start the discovery process immediately or schedule it for a later date. You can also configure a recurring discovery that repeats on a regular basis. For information, see <span style="color: #003300"> </span><span style="color: #003300">[Configuring and Starting an IP discovery](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/nios90/pages/1330938614)</span><span style="color: #003300"> and </span><span style="color: #003300">[Scheduling IP Discovery](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/nios90/pages/1330839896)</span><span style="color: #003300"> below.</span> The appliance saves the configuration of the last discovery.  
When you start an IP discovery from the IPAM Home, Net Map or Network List panel, you can select the networks on which you want the discovery to run. When you start an IP discovery from the IP Map or IP List panel, the discovered network is the one to which the IP addresses belong. You can include additional networks when you configure the IP discovery from the *Discovery* *Manager* wizard. You can run an IP discovery on multiple networks in one network view.