The BladeCenter® Chassis
page allows you to customize the discovery parameters for BladeCenter Chassis.
Complete the following steps to configure discovery preferences for BladeCenter Chassis:
- In IBM Director Console,
click .
- In the Discovery Preferences window on the BladeCenter Chassis page, configure
the general preferences for discovering BladeCenter chassis:
- In the Auto-discover period (hours) field,
select the frequency with which IBM Director Server attempts
to discover BladeCenter chassis
automatically. The possible range is one to 168 hours (seven days). By default,
autodiscovery is disabled.
- In the Presence Check period (minutes) field,
select the frequency that IBM® Director Server checks the status of each BladeCenter chassis.
A presence check detects whether an SNMP device is online or offline. The
possible range is one to 240 minutes (four hours); this feature also can be
disabled. By default, a presence check is set to occur every 15 minutes.
- Specify the conventions that IBM Director Server uses
when you rename BladeCenter chassis
automatically. By default, this naming template is set to IBM %CHASSIS_MACHINE_TYPE_MODEL%
%CHASSIS_SERIAL_NUMBER%.
- Click a parameter in the Selected Parameters field;
then, click Remove. Continue until you have removed
the default parameters.
- In the Available Parameters field, click
a parameter; then, click Add. The parameter is added
to the Selected Parameters list and the Naming
Template field. Continue until you have selected all the parameters
that you want to use.
To restore the renaming conventions to the default setting, select the Reset
to default value check box.