Discovery Preferences window: SMI-S Storage Devices page
This topic describes the Discovery Preferences window: SMI-S Storage
Devices page.
Introduction
You
can use this dialog to set an auto-discovery period, apresence check, Storage
Location Protocol (SLP) profiles, and a naming template for SMI-S Storage
devices.
Fields
- SMI-S Storage Devices
- Auto-discover period (hours)
- This setting is used to control how often the IBM Director Server will
attempt to automatically discover other SMI-S Storage devices for management.
This feature can be disabled (the default setting) or set to a period of between
1 hour and 168 hours (7 days).
- Presence Check Period (minutes)
- This setting controls how often the IBM Director Server checks the status
of each SMI-S Storage device it can manage. The presence check period determines
how quickly the IBM Director Server will detect whether a system is offline
(due to a problem or being shutdown) or online. The automatic presence check
can be disabled, or set to repeat every 1 to 240 minutes (4 hours). The default
is 15 minutes.
- Service Location Protocol (SLP) Profiles
- This setting controls which SLP profiles will be discovered by IBM Director
discovery mechanism.
- Add
- Select a profile in the Available Profiles pane
and click Add to include it in the Selected
Profiles pane.
- Remove
- Select a profile and click Remove to exclude it
from the Selected Profiles pane.
- Reset to default value
- If you select this check box, the Service Location Protocol
Profiles are reset to the default value.
- Naming Convention Template for SMI-S Storage Devices
- Template Name
- This field shows a composite of the Selected Parameters.
- Available Parameters
- A list of all the available parameters
- Selected Parameters
- This list contains parameters that have been selected from the Available
Parameters list.
- Add
- Select a parameter in the Available Parameters list
and click Add to include the parameter in the Selected
Parameters list.
Note: To add customized text to Template
Name, select Insert additional text,
and click the Add button.
- Remove
- To exclude a parameter from the Selected Parameters list
and the Template Name, click Remove.
- Reset to default value
- To remove any alterations and restore the values to the default parameters,
select this check box.
- Use during discovery
- This function is not supported in this release of IBM Director.