Enterprise Manager enables you to discover, promote, add, and then monitor software deployments across your network, using a single GUI-rich console. This chapter introduces you to the concepts of discovery and promotion, and describes how you can perform these tasks using Enterprise Manager.

In particular, this chapter covers the following:

• Overview of Discovering and Adding Targets

• Discovering and Adding Host Targets

• Discovering and Adding Non-Host Targets

• Discovering and Promoting Oracle Homes

• Retrieving Deleted Targets