Discovery

ApplianceWatch utilizes rules that discover storage controllers, their associated objects, and their configurations so that you can monitor the state of each object and troubleshoot where necessary.

The main discovery rule (DataONTAP.Discovery.Rule) is disabled by default. After importing the management pack, you can enable this rule on a Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager management server by overriding the setting.

ApplianceWatch PRO also discovers virtual machines and their relationships to Data ONTAP storage.

ApplianceWatch ignores traditional volumes during the discovery process.

• Expediting system discovery
  If you choose not to wait for the automated discovery process, which runs once in a 24-hour period, to begin or you have modified storage systems being monitored, you can expedite the process by manually running the system discovery.