IMPORTANT:
Discovery information is purged after 7 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 Storage.
- Click on the Download Report icon for the desired storage system.
- Click on the Download icon on the browser toolbar.
This will display the report as a .zip file (outlined in blue) in the system pop-up window in the upper right-hand corner.
- Click on the discovery(1).zip icon.
This will open the system Download history folder (outlined in green).
Extracting and Saving Files from Zip File
This example shows the steps needed to save and extract a Discovery file:
Notes:
- The actual steps are dependent on the actual file structure of the user's computer.
- Create the folder, if necessary.
- In this example the Discovery report will be saved in the Discovery Jobs folder.
- Navigate to the Destination folder.
- Click on the Discovery Reports 2026 folder.
- Click on the Select Folder icon.
This will fill the Destination path (outlined in blue) to the folder where the extracted files will be saved.
- Click on the Extract icon.
This will extract the zipped files into the destination folder. The folder will be displayed with all the extracted files (outlined in green).
Opening a Downloaded Report
In this example the file "discovery-NFS-172.22.13.100-_ifs_data_nfs_brad1.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 an EXCEL spreadsheet.
Closing an Open Downloaded 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.
This will return to the Storage Systems screen (title outlined in blue).
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 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 an INCOMPLETE status.
The Status field will post the reason for the failure in a tooltip. In this example the failure message is "The last Job operation started but was not able to complete".
This completes the overview of the "Discover Now" scan feature. Discovery Jobs will be covered in a later article.
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