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 discovers all the assets: disks, LUNs, volumes, replication relationship and so on, from the storage array. These assets are persisted in the Snapshot Manager database and further used for snapshot and replication operations.
Whenever a new storage array plugin is configured, a discovery operation is automatically triggered to fetch all the assets from the storage array. Snapshot Manager 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 operation in the column of the Storage array plugin in the pane.
Also, you can manually trigger the discovery operation for a specific storage array plugin.
To manually trigger a discovery operation:
- Right-click on the Storage Array Plugin for which you want to trigger discovery in the Snapshot Manager Plugins pane.
- Click Discover Assets.
This changes the Status column of the added storage plugin to Discovering.
You may also trigger the plug-in discovery via NetBackup API. To perform discovery using the NetBackup APIs, refer to the NetBackup API documentation: https://swagger.javaws.kubert.vrts.io/