What a Resource Carries
Identity Across Rescans
Discover identifies a Resource by the most durable signal available to the Collector that found it. Identifiers fall into two groups:
Observation-based identities shift during ordinary operations. A certificate renews, a host takes a new address, or a model list changes. The same service then returns under a different identifier.
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Read Your Inventory
Work through what a scan returned, including what it could not see.