This topic describes the Discovery Preferences window: Physical
Platforms page
Introduction
You
can use this dialog to set discovery parameters for physical platforms.
Fields
- Physical Platforms
- Auto-discover period (hours)
- This setting is used to control how often the IBM Director Server will
attempt to automatically discover other physical platforms for management.
This feature can be disabled (the default value) or set to a period of 1 -
168 hours (7 days).
- Presence Check Period (minutes)
- This setting controls how often the IBM Director Server checks the status
of each physical platform 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 - 240 minutes (4 hours). The default
value is 15 minutes.
- Naming Convention Template for Physical Platforms
- Naming Template:
- This field shows a composite of the Selected Parameters.
- Available Parameters
- This list contains all of 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.
註: 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.