Discovery Preferences Page

The Virtualization Software Configuration Discovery Activity contains:

Activity Name Page > Define Credentials Page > Discovery Preferences Page > Schedule Discovery Page > Summary Page

Select the check box to run IBM HMC topology discovery.

Click the button beside Discovery Options to display the available option:

• Report LPAR name as hostname

  Select to report the LPAR name as hostname.

Select the check box to run Oracle VM Server for SPARC Technology discovery.

Click the button beside Discovery Options to display the available option:

• Match Guest LDOMs domain names as hostnames

  Select to enable Guest LDOMs to be reported with their hostnames that are set to domain names. This option may aid in hosts reconciliation.

Select the check box to run Solaris Zone topology discovery.

Click the button beside Discovery Options to display the available option:

• Login via zlogin as connected user

  Select to enable the login with zlogin connected to the global zone user account.

  Default: zlogin uses the root account.

Select the check box to run VMware ESX/vMotion topology discovery.

Click the button beside Discovery Options to display the available options:

• VMware SDK libraries

  Select the check box and click Import file... to locate the appropriate JAR files, as follows:

  • vim.jar

  • vim25.jar

• Report power-down virtual machines

  Select to report power-down virtual machines.

• vMotion Options

  • Use event based discovery

    Select to enable the discovery job to monitor new vMotion events until the discovery stops.

    If this check box is cleared, only vMotion events that happened during last History Hours can be discovered.

  • History Hours

    Select to specify the time within which discovery checks for untracked vMotion events.

  • Retries number

    Select to specify the maximum number of times that the discovery attempts to restore the connection.

    Default: Zero (0). Zero means that the number of retries is unlimited.

Select the check box to run Xen and KVM topology discovery.

Click the button beside Discovery Options to display the available option:

• Virsh path

  Path to the virsh management utility.