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The Discovery Page
The Discovery page shows information about all existing discoveries and enables you to create new discoveries. Components that can be discovered include Integration Servers, Terracotta Management Consoles, Software AG Universal Messaging Servers, Broker Servers, My webMethods Servers, and SNMP components as well as EntireX, ApplinX, Adabas, Adabas SOA Gateway, Com-plete, Natural, and Natural Ajax components. Note that this page does not show the parent SNMP Config file for SNMP components or child Broker components underneath the parent Broker Servers. When you discover a component using Asset Discovery on the Discovery page, that discovery runs automatically and the discovered asset is listed on the Assets page. The Assets page shows the child Brokers and parent SNMP Config files in addition to Integration Servers, Broker Servers, and SNMP agents.
You may need to edit connection information for a discovery if the parameters used to create that discovery have changed. If you change information about a discovery on the Discovery page, the changes are not reflected on the Assets page unless you update the settings on the Discovery page and rerun the discovery.
The Broker auto-discovery feature automatically detects when new components have been created on a previously discovered Broker Server asset. For example, auto discovery can find a new Broker that has been created on a Broker Server. When Broker auto-discovery is enabled, it runs automatically on all available Broker Servers to discover newly added components. Note that Broker Servers must still be manually discovered, even if Broker auto-discovery is enabled.
Broker auto-discovery is disabled by default, because it can have a negative impact on system performance in some configurations. You must use the Central Configuration feature of My webMethods to enable auto-discovery. See the “Defining Logical Server Subcomponents for the Infrastructure Data Collector” section of the Managing webMethods Environments chapter of Configuring BAM for more information.
Note:
If the Infrastructure Data Collector is down and a new Broker is added or deleted while auto-discovery is enabled, the new Broker is discovered or removed when Infrastructure Data Collector comes up. But if a document type/custom adapters/territory/gateway is changed while Infrastructure Data Collector is down then it will not be detected when Infrastructure Data Collector comes back up. In this case, you must manually re-discover the Broker Server to update these components.
Note:
The Optimize Analytic Engine does not function with IPv6, so Optimize for Infrastructure must be run on IPv4 while it monitors resources running on IPv6. As a workaround, users need to discover Software AG applications running on IPv6 using the appropriate host name rather than the IPv6 address.
*To view the Discovery page
1. In My webMethods navigate to Navigate > Applications > Administration > Analytics > Infrastructure Components > Discovery
The primary Discovery page component is the Assets to Discover table. This table displays a No Discoveries Found message until you create a discovery. Two buttons titled Add Assets and Add Network enable you to create discoveries.
The following table describes the information that is available for the discovered assets.
Column
Description
NAME
The IP address or host name, and the port number for the discovery.
Note:
Discovered Integration Server assets always consist of the Integration Server's fully qualified DNS name and port number, even if an IP address or range was specified at the Discovery page.
TYPE
The component type (SNMP, Broker Server, Integration Server, My webMethods Server, Adabas, ApplinX, EntireX, Adabas SOA Gateway, Com-plete, Natural, Natural Ajax, Apama, MashZone NextGen, Terracotta or Universal Messaging) of the asset for which you are searching, and the type of discovery (Asset or Network).
DATA COLLECTOR
The network address or host name of the data collector used for this discovery.
STATUS
State of the discovery as listed below.
*Configured: The discovery has been configured but has not been run. This status applies only to a Network search.
*Running: Indicates a network discovery in progress.
*Completed: Indicates a discovery that completed without errors.
*Requested: Indicates that a discovery request has been made. The discovery may be in progress or the Infrastructure Data Collector may not have received the discovery request.
*Cancelled: Indicates that there has been a request to stop a network discovery.
*Failed: Indicates that a discovery failed. If status is Failed, position the mouse pointer over the status to display information about the cause of the failure.
LAST ACTION
Time the last action indicated in the STATUS column was performed.
ACTIONS
Selected actions you can perform on the discovery.
In addition, you can do the following on the Discovery page:
*Click the Add Asset button to discover an asset for which you have specific addressing information. You can discover different types of components using this method. For more information, see Adding an Asset.
*Click the Add Network button to discover network assets using a range of IP addresses. You can discover Integration Servers and Broker Servers using this method. For more information, see Adding a Network.
*Click the Delete button to remove selected discoveries. Note that this button is inactive until an asset is selected. Also, you cannot remove a discovery in progress. Deleting an asset does not affect previously discovered or monitored assets. For instance, deleting an SNMP Discovery does not delete discovered SNMP assets or associated event data.
*Click the Refresh button to update the discovery display. Click this button after adding or discovering any assets to ensure that the information displayed is current.
*Click the Export Table button to view the contents of the Discovery page as a table.
*Click a discovery name in the NAME column to view and/or edit the connection parameters for that asset.
*To view information about an asset with a failed status, position the mouse pointer over the word Failed in the STATUS column.
*Click beside a column heading to sort the display by the information in the column.
*Click an icon in the ACTIONS column to manipulate a discovery.
The following table provides information about specific icons and the actions that they facilitate.
If you want to
Do this
Cancel a network discovery that is in progress.
Click Cancel icon in the ACTIONS column beside the network discovery you want to cancel. (This icon does not appear for asset discoveries or for network discoveries that are no longer in progress.)
Run a previously created asset discovery.
Click Green arrow icon in the ACTIONS column beside the discovery you want to run. (You cannot run a discovery that is already in progress.)
Change the connection parameters of a previously created asset discovery.
Click Edit icon in the ACTIONS column beside the discovery you want to edit. (You cannot edit an asset discovery that is in progress.)