Discovery

Use Discovery to identify and establish connections with all managed objects in the IBM® Director environment. Managed objects include, but are not limited to, Level-0, Level-1, Level-2 managed systems, SNMP devices, BladeCenter™ management modules, platforms, switches, and z/VM® systems. The management server sends out a discovery request and waits for responses from all managed objects. The managed objects listen for this request and respond to the management server that sent the request.

Note: Discovery is a background process. When you start this task, no window or progress indicator is displayed. Because it is a background process, you can use IBM Director Console while the discovery continues. As managed objects are discovered in the IBM Director environment, they are displayed in IBM Director Console.
Icon Discovery icon
Supported IBM Director objects All managed objects
Supported operating systems

All operating systems supported by IBM Director. For detailed operating-system support information, see the IBM Director information center at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Availability Part of the standard IBM Director installation.
Required hardware or hardware limitations None
Required software None
Required protocols None
Required device drivers None
Mass Configuration support No
Scheduler support Yes
Files associated with this task None
Events associated with this task None
Related tasks
Configuring discovery preferences
Discovering systems automatically
Adding managed systems manually
Adding a physical platform manually
Adding a new SNMP device
Adding a z/VM system manually
Adding a BladeCenter chassis manually
Discovering SMI-S storage devices
Related reference
Discovery Preferences window

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