IMPORTANT:
Discovery information is purged after 5 days - to retain the information it is recommended to download reports prior to them being purged.
Notes:
- When the scan is complete, all the created reports will be downloadable by clicking the "Download Report" button.
- If any of the shares were unreachable (for any number of reasons), and the scan for that share fails, that share will not have a report in the collected reports, but progress will still progress toward 100%. The progress counts any job processed towards progress, so if all the jobs failed, it would still show 100% done, even though the reports zip file would be empty.
To download the report using the "Download Report" icon perform the following process steps:
Note:
This process will start at the Discovery screen. This example will use NFS Rack 4.
- Click on the Download Report icon for the desired storage system.
This will open a local browser pop-up window.
Note:
The screenshot below is for illustrative purposes. The actual path provided is dependent on file location on the system in use.
This example shows the steps needed to save a Job Report:
Notes:
- The actual steps are dependent on the actual file structure of the user's computer.
- In this example the Discovery report will be saved in the Discovery Jobs folder.
- Navigate to the destination folder.
- Click on the Discovery Reports folder.
This will open the Discovery Reports folder (outlined in green).
- Modify the file name to be descriptive (optional) In this example the date will be added to allow a unique file name.
- Click on the Save icon.
This will save the report as a .zip file to the designated location and this is reflected job report name in the pop-up window in the lower left corner.
This will enable the report to be unzipped and viewed using a viewer program of choice.
Extracting Files from Zip File
To download the report using the "Download Report" icon perform the following process steps:
Note:
This process will start at the Discovery screen.
- Click on the Arrow icon.
This will provide a pop-up menu of user options.
- Click on the Open link.
This will provide a pop-up local browser window showing the discovery files in a zipped format.
- Click on the Extract all icon.
- Click on the Extract icon.
Note:
This will provide a pop-up local browser window showing the discovery file path that allows the destination folder to be changed to another file or be extracted into the same folder as the zipped files. In this example the extracted files will be placed in the same folder as the zipped fields.
This will provide a pop-up local browser window displaying the unzipped files in their destination folder (outlined in groups).
techwriter_nfs_1 (outlined in blue)
techwriter_nfs_2 (outlined in green)
techwriter_nfs_3 (outlined in purple)
techwriter_nfs_4 (outlined in pink)
Reading Downloaded Reports
In this example the file "discovery-NFS-172.22.15.121-RACK5CDOT_NFS_data_techwriter_nfs_1.csv" will be opened.
To download the report using the "Download Report" icon perform the following process steps:
Note:
This process will start at the Destination folder displaying the unzipped files.
- Click on the file link to open the desired report.
A local pop-up browser window will show the unzipped EXCEL file.
- Click on the file link to open the desired report.
This will open the file as a spreadsheet. When use of the report is completed, perform the following to close the report.
To close the report:
- Click on the "X" in the upper-right corner to close the worksheet.
- Click on the "X" in the upper-right corner to close the local browser window.
- Click on the "X" in the upper-right corner to close the local browser window.
- Click on the "X" in the upper-right corner to close the local browser window.
Exiting the Job Report
- To exit the reporting function click the X in the Job Report tab of the active browser window.
Error Messages
If the discovery process is not successful the Status field (outlined in blue) will post a FAILED status.
The Progress field will post the reason for the failure. In this example the failure message (outlined in blue) is "FAILED to mount source (not found (check path names / export configuration))".
If the discovery process is not successfully completed the Status field (outlined in blue) will post a INCOMPLETE status.
The Status field will post the reason for the failure in a tooltip. In this example the failure message (outlined in blue) is "The last Job operation started but was not able to complete".
This completes the overview of Discovery Reports (Download Report - Storage System Page).
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