Use the Prepare to Discover dialog box to determine the configuration of a system. The system does not have to be a NetBackup client.

If a client is selected in the NetBackup Administration Console window, the values and options for that client appear or are included in drop-down lists.

When you discover a configuration, NetBackup adds it to the discovered configurations pool. The elements of the configuration (such as disk layout) then can be used to perform operations such as dissimilar disk restores.