Discovery

Discovery is the process by which IBM® Flex System Manager identifies and establishes connections with network-level resources that IBM Flex System Manager can manage, such as compute nodes, storage systems, or network devices. Use system discovery to identify resources within your environment, collect data about those resources, and establish connections with them.

Before you can use IBM Flex System Manager to manage a device, that resource must be discovered by IBM Flex System Manager. After a resource is discovered, it becomes a system that IBM Flex System Manager can manage.

Note: The discovery process discovers only systems and other types of resources that can be managed by IBM Flex System Manager. In other words, just because you can "ping" a resource does not mean that IBM Flex System Manager can discover it.

After a system is discovered, it is displayed on the Resource Explorer page. You can drill down in the groups of systems within IBM Flex System Manager to manage and view information about the systems that have been discovered.

You can view discovery and inventory information and perform discovery and inventory tasks on the Initial Setup tab of the Home page or by using the Discovery Manager plug-in. As the discovery process runs, the pie chart on the Discovery Manager summary page updates to indicate the number of system types discovered.