About discoveries, Ip discoveries – HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance and Software User Manual
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About Discoveries
The Storage Management Appliance uses a discovery process to identify devices
and applications operating in your storage network environment. You can create
any number of discovery processes, and each process can have a different set of
parameters. Each process is referred to as a discovery.
You can schedule a discovery to run at regular intervals or to run only on demand,
which means you must start the process manually.
To find all devices in your Storage Area Network (SAN) you must use two
discovery types—IP discoveries and SAN discoveries.
IP Discoveries
The Storage Management Appliance is connected to your organization’s LAN via
a Network Interface Card and an Ethernet cable. You can define any number of IP
discoveries that query SNMP agents at specified IP addresses. An IP discovery
can identify any device connected to the LAN with an enabled SNMP agent. Such
devices include host computers and Fibre Channel switches.
IP discoveries also identify any Storage Management Appliances connected to
your storage network.
Note:
Not all devices identified by an IP discovery generate events supported by the
Storage Management Appliance. See Chapter 5 “
for more information.