The Discovery Manager can find hosts, routers, networks, and subnets as explained in Overview of IP Addressing. The Discovery Manager also discovers objects where a Sun Management Center agent is configured to a different server context as described in Sun Management Center Server Context and Security.
The Discovery Manager can also find and group topology objects. These objects can be related either to a single hardware platform or to a group of cooperating hardware platforms. This discovery and grouping feature enables convenient management of the related objects. This technique is described in the add-on supplement for those machine architectures that have this grouping requirement.
For additional information, refer to your platform supplement. The supplement contains important platform-specific information about discovering objects.
You can create one or more discover requests. Each request runs as a separate process and adds the discovered objects to the administrative domain. The Discovery feature is supported only for administrative domains and not for any subordinate groups. You can add requests only for an administrative domain.
You can also schedule requests to look periodically for new hosts.
Every discover request is assigned a Request ID. This ID is a unique Sun Management Center internal identifier of the request. The Request IDs might not be in sequential order. The Request ID displays in the Request Details portion of the Discover Requests Window.
The Discover Objects window contains the fields that are described in the following table.
Table 4–1 Fields in the Discover Objects Window
The Discover Objects window contains the buttons that are listed in the following table.
Table 4–2 Buttons in the Discover Requests Window
Button |
Action |
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Add |
Create a new discover request through the New Discover Request window. |
Modify |
Change the selected discover request. |
Duplicate |
Create a copy of the selected discover request. |
Delete |
Delete the selected discover request. |
Start |
Start the selected discover request. The selected request must not be running and must not be scheduled to run. |
Stop |
Stop running the selected discover request. The selected request must be running. |
Log |
View a log of the results that the selected discover request generated. |