Identifying How a Managed Server Was Discovered

You can identify whether a managed server was discovered by OS-based discovery if in the server details section of the N1 System Manager browser interface or by using the show server command, the following states should be true:

• The connection section does not show a mgmtEth interface

• The management IP address is identical to the IP address used in the discover command when the server was discovered

• Power control capability is listed as unavailable

Some functionality might be absent, based on how the server was discovered. Table 4–1 lists supported and unsupported operations for managed servers based on how they were discovered. For managed servers discovered manually or by OS-based discovery, attempts to execute operations that are unsupported because of how the server was discovered are flagged by unsupported operation error messages.

Some servers support Remote System Control (RSC). For some models of RSC servers, the model number displayed by the N1 System Manager can depend on how the server was discovered.

• For Sun Fire V490 servers discovered manually or through OS-based discovery, the model name returned is SF-V490. If the Sun Fire V490 server was discovered through its service processor, the model name is returned as SF-RSC.

• For Sun Fire V890 servers discovered manually or through OS-based discovery, the model name returned is SF-V890. If the server was discovered automatically through its service processor, the model name is returned as SF-RSC.

See Discovering and Identifying Servers by Their Model Numbers for details.