Host Discovery; Discovering Hosts By Ip Address Or Hostname - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade BladeSystem 4/24 User Manual

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Host discovery

Host discovery
The Management application enables you to discover individual hosts, import a group of Host from
a comma separated values (CSV) file, or import all hosts from discovered fabrics.
NOTE
Host discovery requires HCM Agent 2.0 or later.
NOTE
SMI and WMI discovery are not supported.

Discovering Hosts by IP address or hostname

To discover a Host by IP address or hostname, complete the following steps.
1. Select Discover > Setup.
2. Click Add Host.
3. Enter a discovery request name (such as, Manual 06/12/2009) in the Name field.
4. Select Network Address from the list.
5. Enter the IP address (IPv4 or IPv6 formats) or hostname in the Network Address field.
6. Click Add.
7.
8. Repeat
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The Discover Setup dialog box displays.
The Add Host Discovery dialog box displays.
FIGURE 23
Add Host Discovery dialog box - Host tab
The IP address or hostname of the Host displays in the text box.
Configure Host credentials, if necessary.
To configure host credentials, refer to
"Configuring virtual machine credentials"
step 5 through step 7
"Configuring Brocade HBA credentials"
on page 46.
for each Host you want to discover.
on page 45 or
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