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  2. NetBackup™ for KVM Administrator's Guide
  3. Managing KVM hosts
  4. About KVM discovery
  5. Change the autodiscovery frequency of KVM assets
NetBackup™ for KVM Administrator's Guide

Change the autodiscovery frequency of KVM assets

Automatic discovery of KVM virtual machines occurs at regular intervals. The default frequency is every 8 hours. Use this procedure to change the autodiscovery frequency.

To change the frequency of autodiscovery of KVM assets

  1. On the left, select Workloads > KVM.
  2. At the top right, select KVM settings > Autodiscovery.
  3. Locate the Frequency setting and select Edit.
  4. Type the value or use the up and down arrows to choose the frequency value.

    The range from which you can choose is 1 hour to 24 hours. To set the autodiscovery frequency in minutes or seconds or to disable autodiscovery, you must use the KVM autodiscovery API.

  5. Select Save.

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