In order to discover Service Processor servers on the network, first you need to add at least one service processor type manually. See the article "How to manually add Service Processors to NodeGrid" for details.
Then, access the NodeGrid via a browser and log in as admin user, and go to Managed Devices :: Auto Discovery:: Discovery Rules, click Add, and follow the steps below to discover and add service processor to the NodeGrid Managed Devices.
- Enter a name for the rule
- On Discovery Method select DHCP. This enables NodeGrid Manager to evaluate the discovery rules for any server with a service processor that requests DHCP. Please note that this option requires DHCP Server enabled under Network :: DHCP Server.
- For Mac Address field provide the three first octets or full MAC Address of the devices that you want to discover. In the Host or VM Identifier field, provide a substring to identify the server names for this configuration. Fields left blank will not be used during the discovery to match this configuration.
- In the Action field, select action Clone (Mode: Enabled).
- For the Clone From field, select the server name that you manually added and then, click Save.
NOTE: if the Service Processors’ management port is set with static IP address, then follow the steps below first to create a Scan ID. After that, follow the steps above but the on Discovery Method select Network Scan instead of DHCP, and select the Scan I d just created.
Go to Managed Devices :: Auto Discovery:: Network Scan page and click on Add button.
Enter a Scan ID and the IP range (start and end).
You can select/unselect the 3 options depending on how you want to discover your Service Processor devices:
- Similar Devices (select a service processor device that you previously have added to NodeGrid),
- Port Scan and enter a list of ports in the Port List field,
- Ping
You may want to change the scan interval or leave it the default 60 minutes.
Click Save.
Note: Similar Devices mean that all devices have the same credentials.