Plug-in Discovery
Plug-in discovery is a functionality which is available for all the storage arrays supported by Snapshot Manager for Data Center. As a part of the discovery operation, the Snapshot Manager for Data Center discovers all the assets: disks, LUNs, volumes, replication relationship and so on, from the storage array. These assets are persisted in the Snapshot Manager for Data Center database and further used for snapshot and replication operations.
Whenever a new storage array plug-in is configured, NetBackup initiates a discovery operation to retrieve the assets from the storage array. Snapshot Manager for Data Center automatically schedules the plug-in discovery after every 4 hours. This discovery interval can be configured using the NetBackup API.
You can monitor the status of discovery in the column of the Storage array plug-in, inside the pane.
Also, you can manually initiate the discovery operation for a specific storage array plug-in.
To manually initiate a discovery operation:
- Right-click the storage array plug-in for which you want to initiate discovery in the Snapshot Manager for Data Center Plugins pane.
- Click Discover Assets.
This changes the Status column of the added storage plug-in to Discovering.
You may also initiate the plug-in discovery by NetBackup API. To perform discovery using the NetBackup APIs, refer to the NetBackup API documentation: https://swagger.javaws.kubert.vrts.io/