Configuring global discovery settings

Choose the preferred settings to use when discovering devices.

Procedure

1. From the XClarity Orchestrator menu bar, click Resources () > New Devices to display the Discover and manage new devices card.
2. Click the Configuration to display the Discovery settings dialog.
3. Select the preferred discovery settings.
   • SLP Discovery

     Indicates whether to automatically discover devices using the service location protocol (SLP).

     When enabled, XClarity Orchestrator attempts to discover new devices every 15 minutes and at every user login.

     Note

     The SLP Discovery setting that you choose in XClarity Orchestrator overrides any SLP discovery setting chosen for Lenovo XClarity Administrator instances that are managed by XClarity Orchestrator.

     If the SLP Discovery setting is changed in Lenovo XClarity Administrator, it will be synchronized with XClarity Orchestrator.

   • Encapsulation on all future managed devices

     Indicates whether encapsulation is enabled during device management.

     Encapsulation is disabled by default. When disabled, the device encapsulation mode is set to normal and the firewall rules are not changed as part of the management process.

     When encapsulation is enabled and a device supports encapsulation, XClarity Orchestrator communicates with the device (through the resource manager) during the management process to change the device encapsulation mode to encapsulationLite and to change the firewall rules on the device to limit incoming requests to those only from the resource manager that was chosen to manage the device.

     Attention

     If encapsulation is enabled and the resource manager that was chosen to manage the device becomes unavailable before a device is unmanaged, necessary steps must be taken to disable encapsulation to establish communication with that device.
   • Register request enabled

     Indicates whether resource managers (Lenovo XClarity Administrator and Lenovo XClarity Management Hub) accept discovery requests from a baseboard management controller when the management controller uses DNS to find resource-manager instances. When enabled, the management controller can register with resource manager as a discovered device.

   • Offline devices cleanup.

     Indicates whether to automatically unmanage devices that are offline for at least the amount of time specified by Offline devices timeout. When enabled, XClarity Orchestrator checks for offline devices every hour and each time a user logs in to the portal.

   • Offline devices timeout

     Amount of time, in hours, that devices must be offline before they are automatically unmanaged. This value can be from 1 – 24 hours. The default is 24 hours.

4. Click Save.