HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

Configuring the Management Server182
• Include backup details - To obtain the latest backup information, select the Include backup
details option, and schedule the discovery to run nightly after you run your backup sessions. It is
recommended you do not schedule the discovery of infrastructure details and backup details to
run at the same time.
This section contains the following topics:
• Adding a Discovery Schedule, page 182
• Disabling a Schedule, page 183
• Editing a Schedule, page 183
• Removing a Schedule, page 184
• Modifying Collector Settings for Newly Discovered Elements, page 184
Adding a Discovery Schedule
Schedule getting details when the network is not busy.
Keep in mind the following:
• All collectors are stopped during a discovery using the Include infrastructure details option. This
means that during the gathering of infrastructure details, information about the SAN, such as for
Performance Manager, is not updated.
• If you are creating multiple discovery schedules, take care to avoid scheduling
conflicts—concurrently scheduled discovery tasks—and ensure that each scheduled task has
enough time to start and finish before the next discovery task is scheduled to start. See ”Do Not
Run Overlapping Discovery Schedules” on page 709.
• Do not run Discovery Data Collection for all discovery groups simultaneously.
• Hosts discovered with CIM extensions from Build 5.1 and later of the HP Storage Essentials
cannot be added to discovery groups. These hosts can be placed independently into scheduled
Discovery Data Collection tasks without being part of a discovery group. This allows you greater
flexibility when gathering discovery data.
If you are upgrading from a previous build of the product, and you rediscover your hosts, they
will be moved out of their existing discovery groups. Each rediscovered host would be placed in
its own discovery group. If the original discovery groups containing these hosts were included in
scheduled Discovery Data Collection tasks, the schedules would be modified to contain the new
discovery groups for rediscovered hosts.
To schedule discovery details:
1. Select Options > Storage Essentials > Discovery > Schedule Discovery Data Collection.
2. Click New Schedule.
3. In the Name box, enter a name for your discovery schedule.
4. In the Description box, enter a description for your discovery schedule.
5. Select one or more of the following:
• Include infrastructure details - If the Include infrastructure details option is selected, the
management server gathers detailed information about the SAN infrastructure. This process
can be network intensive.