There needs to be a way to do a bulk Active Discovery from within the UI.
Summary: Kel L suggests adding a bulk Active Discovery feature within the UI of the LM Portal to facilitate updating server information after changes such as Windows Patching. They propose placing this feature under the Inventory Tab's Action menu, noting the absence of this option and highlighting its logical placement there. Additionally, they suggest including a Data Source Rematch option.
There are times where we make a change to a bunch of servers (e.g. Windows Patching) and need to do a discovery on all the server to get their info update. There is currently no way to do this from within the LM Portal. The only way to do so is to use an API call.
The logical place to put this would seem to be under the Inventory Tab when viewing any group. I can already check all the boxes for all the devices and then view the Action menu. I was surprised to NOT find a Active Discovery option in there seems like that's where it should be.
If that could be added, and possibly the Data Source Rematch option as well, that would be great.
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·Aug 13, 2026 at 8:16 PMI also agree that this feature is desperately needed. We were shown a trick, where if you change a property on the group, it will force an active rediscovery of everything in that group. So basically you can add a junk property called "refresh.now" at the parent level, and saving that will do the job. Of course, this is hacky in nature, and now you have to go clean that property up later... Having a dedicated button is logical.
The one singular benefit you get using the API, is (if you program it as such), you can have an output to the screen showing you the progress of the command (which resource it's on). I would personally like to see some kind of command status option in the UI, after all, it's just doing API queries to the back end anyway.
I digress..