Configure pattern settings

To select all patterns across all pattern groups:

1. Select All in Pattern-Group.
2. Select Apply all for selected Pattern-Group.

To use a default selection of patterns across all pattern groups:

1. Select All in Pattern-Group.
2. Select Apply defaults for selected Pattern-Group.

To use a default selection of patterns for a particular pattern group:

1. Select a particular Pattern-Group. The available pattern groups are:
   
   1. All - all available pattern-groups.
   2. Windows - patterns specific to Microsoft Windows devices.
   3. Linux - patterns specific to Linux and similar distributions.
   4. MacOS - patterns specific to MacOS.
   5. SNMP - patterns specific to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) devices.
   6. ESXi - patterns from VMware ESXi, an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor.
   7. IBM - patterns from IBM.
   8. Solaris - patterns from Solaris.
   9. Custom - custom patterns. This pattern-group is empty by default.
2. Select which patterns to enable or disable:
   1. Apply defaults for selected Pattern-Group
   2. Apply all for selected Pattern-Group
   3. Disable selected Pattern-Group

To apply only individual patterns:

1. Select All in Pattern-Group.
2. Select Disable selected Pattern-Group.
3. Select a particular Pattern-Group.
4. For each pattern-group, select which individual patterns to enable.

Edit a pattern

It is possible but not recommend to modify the existing Patterns.

If there’s any missing Information the best practice is to add a new pattern, the missing Information will be merged to the Discovery-Object. If you are modifying an existing Pattern, make sure to save it in an external location as default patterns are overwritten when you update Discovery.

Remove a pattern

• You can disable a pattern file in general by navigating to the Pattern tab and by clearing the checkbox against the unwanted pattern.
• You can disable a pattern file for a specific scan range by navigating to the Scan settings tab and selecting the pattern files that you don't want to use.