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Discovery Project and Jobs Dashboard
Updated onArticleThe "Discover Now" function examines the systems for NFS and SMB system assets to create a "Discover" project and associated jobs. To initiate the "Discover Now" feature perform the following process steps: Click on the Discovery link under the DATA SERVICES banner. This will expand to show the administrative options.
Knowledge Base The Discovery Feature Guide Discovery Reports
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Discovery Reports (Discovery Job Page)
Updated onArticleEach Job and Project title has a tooltip definition attached to it. It can be seen by hovering over each column header title. Job Name (Optional) | Job ID
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Discovery Reports (Download Report - Storage System Page)
Updated onArticleIMPORTANT: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.
Knowledge Base The Discovery Feature Guide Discovery Reports
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Delete Storage Systems
Updated onArticleNote:This process will start at the "Discovery - Discover Files and Directories located in Storage Systems" screen. The "Discovery - Storage Systems" shows the discovered systems and their associated scan settings. Click on the show all Storage Systems link.
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Add Storage System
Updated onArticleNote:This process will start at the "Discovery - Discover Files and Directories located in Storage Systems" screen. The "Discovery - Storage Systems" shows the discovered systems and their associated scan settings. Click on the Add Storage System icon.
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Error Messages While Running "Discover Now" Scan
Updated onArticleIf an error is encountered while scanning the progress bar will stop short of completed, showing the number of shares examined out of the total number identified, (outlined in green) with a status error message.
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Clear Settings
Updated onArticleIMPORTANT:Jobs should not be retained as they will use system resources simply by existing (the scheduler will have to process them, even if they don't run). This is why jobs and projects are only retained for 5 days in Discovery. Notes: The project and all associated jobs can be removed by clicking the Clear Settings button (outlined in purple) on a System which has a Discovery Project and Jobs, where all the project activity has stopped (either scan has completed, or user has manually stopped the scan). Clearing the Settings will not only remove the Project and Job records, it will also reset the system to default settings and selections.
Knowledge Base The Discovery Feature Guide Discovery Feature
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Discover Now Scan Feature
Updated onArticleThe "Discover Now" function examines the systems for NFS and SMB system assets to create a "Discover" project and associated jobs. To initiate the "Discover Now" feature perform the following process steps: Click on the Discovery link under the DATA SERVICES banner. This will expand to show the administrative options.
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Scan Settings - Review and Revise
Updated onArticleNote:There should be a "Scan Settings" button in each summary tile (outlined in blue) which allows the setting of any needed Project/Job level overrides (e.g. SMB security settings), as well a listing all associated Connections, and Shares/Mounts, with associated check boxes for enabling/disabling; default would have all enabled except for special directories (directories containing other listed shares, or that end with a dollar sign), as well as any share which has a "connection failure" warning --these are marked by an orange colored icon. This process will start at the "Discovery - Discover Files and Directories located in Storage Systems" screen. The "Discovery - Storage Systems" shows the discovered systems and their associated scan settings.
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Editing Storage System Details - From Discovery
Updated onArticleThe term "Storage System" represents a network storage appliance (i.e., network storage array).At times storage system details may need to be “edited” in order to make the storage system easier to identify. To update the desired storage system details from the discovery screen and enable it to be available for jobs perform the following steps: In this example, starting from the Discovery screen, the storage system details for "NFS - Rack 4" (outlined in green) will be revised to add additional information.
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