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New/Edit Service Discovery Activity Dialog Box

This dialog box enables you to create or edit a Service Discovery activity.

To access

Select Data Flow Management > Service Discovery and do one of the following:

  • To create an activity: Click New Service Discovery Activity .
  • To edit an existing activity: Select an activity and click Edit .
Relevant tasks
ClosedDetails Area

User interface elements are described below:

UI Elements Description
Activity Name

The name of the activity. This field is mandatory.

Note Naming conventions:

  • The name can contain the following characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, hyphen (-), underscore (_), and space ( ).
  • The name is not case sensitive.
  • The name must be limited to a length of 40 characters.
Type Select the CI type of the service that will be created and discovered by this activity.
URL

Enter a valid URL for the starting point for the Service Discovery activity.

Valid URLs have the one of the following formats:

  • [<protocol>://][<name>][.<domain>][.<root-domain>][:<port>][/<site>]
  • [<protocol>://][<IP>][:<port>][/<site>]

where:

  • <protocol> = http:// or https://
  • <name> = The <name> can contain any Unicode letter, character, or number. The <name> may contain a dash ("-"), but not at the beginning or at the end, nor can there be two or more consecutive dashes. The <name> may not contain any other special character.
  • <domain> = Same as <name>.
  • <root-domain> = The <root-domain> must contain at least two characters, and can contain any Unicode letter, but no numbers. The <root-domain> may not contain any special characters.
  • <IP> = Any valid IPv4 address.
  • <port> = The <port> may contain only digits—at least two, and no more than 5.
  • <site> = Any character (including special characters), but excluding white spaces.

Note Only the <name> or <IP> values are mandatory (depending on the selected format for the URL); all other values are optional.
Template

Select a Template resource. Parameter values in a template override those specified for a job (if any).

A default template (with default parameter values) exists, and you can use this template if you do not want to create one. The default template can be changed. For more information, see Service Discovery Activity Templates Dialog Box
Hop Limit

Limit the scope of the Service Discovery activity by specifying the maximum number of consumer-provider relationships to be discovered. The default value is 5.
ClosedScheduling Area

This tab allows you to schedule jobs for the Service Discovery activity.

Caution When creating discovery jobs, try to avoid scheduling multiple jobs to run during the same time frame.

UI Elements Description
Repeat Every: Enables you to specify the interval at which the activity will run.
Allow Discovery to run at:

Enables you to constrain the time at which the activity will run.

Select a predefined time from the drop-down list, or click and then click to open the Edit Time Template dialog box, where you can define a custom time frame.