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Chapter 5 Discovery

Discovery Results

TheDetailDiscovery>DiscoveryResultspagedisplaysthelatestdetaildiscoveryresultsandallowsyouto

createormodifyadetaildiscoverypolicy,orviewthereportcardforapolicy.

Report Card

Youcanusethereportcardtoviewinformationaboutdiscovery,suchasthetotaldiscoverytime,detailed

statusinformation,protocolsused,discoverystagesandtheirtimes,andmuchmore.Youcanalsousethe

reportcardasatroubleshootingutility.Youcanviewandresolveerrorsdirectlyfromthereportcardaswell

ascreateasupportpackageforthespecificreportcard.Thereportcardisuseful

inthefollowingscenarios:

 Whenyouwanttofindoutmoredetailedinformationaboutthediscoveryprocesssuchassearch

strategiesanddirectories,orthetimetakentocompletethefulldiscovery.

 Fortroubleshootingdiscoveryerrors.

 Whendiscoveryisreportedassuccessful,butaCIseemstobemissingorhasanincorrectvalue,andthe

userwantstoinvestigatethisfurther.

Discovery Directories

TheDetailDiscovery>DiscoveryDirectoriespageallowsyoutospecifyorcustomizethedirectoriesthat

ADMwillsearchwhenitsearchesforapplications.ADMthensearchesthedirectoriesaddedthroughthis

interfaceinadditiontoallthedefaultdirectoriesthroughwhichitsearches.

Thefollowingisanexampleinwhich

youwouldusethispage: 

1ThedefaultOracleinstallationonUNIXislocatedat /opt/oracle,butinyourenvironment,Oracleis

installedonadifferentlocationsuchas/opt/applications/oracle.

2Youneedtoadd/opt/applications/oracle asadiscoverydirectoryandcandosothroughthe

DetailDiscovery>DiscoveryDirectoriespage.

Timeouts

TheDetailDiscovery>Timeoutspageletsyouconfigurethetimeoutvaluesfordifferentprotocolmethods.

Eachprotocolusedfordiscovery(thatis,SNMP,SSH,Telnet,WMI,orVI‐SDK)usesadifferentmethod(such

asrunningaremotecommandinanSSHsessionorexecutingaremotequerywithWMI)

inordertoacquire

information.Atimeoutisenforcedontheexecutionofeachprotocolmethod.Thispageallowsyoutomodify

thetimeoutvalues.Typically,thisisforadvancedusers.

Thefollowingisanexampleinwhichyouwouldconfigurethetimeoutvalues:

1Youperformadiscoveryandreceivea

timeouterrorintheDiscoveryResultstabofthereportcard.

Followingerrormessageisdisplayed:

Method “running remote shell command” has timed out. Current timeout is 10 minutes.

2ClicktheresolutionlinkthatredirectsyoutotheDetailDiscoveryTimeoutstableinthe

DetailDiscovery>Timeoutstab.

3 Changethetimeoutfor“Runashellcommand”from10minutesto20minutes.

OTEThediscoverydirectoriesspecifiedinthistabapplyonlytodetaildiscovery.

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