Plug-in Discovery
Plug-in discovery functionality is available for all the supported storage arrays. As a part of the discovery operation, the Snapshot Manager for Data Center discovers all the assets: disks, LUNs, volumes, replication relationships, and so on, from the storage array. These assets are persisted in the Snapshot Manager for Data Center database and are 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/