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Systemwalker Software Configuration Manager Technical Guide
FUJITSU Software

2.1 Discovery

"Discovery" is a function that collects configuration information for business servers and registers it in the configuration management database (CMDB).

The configuration information collected by the discovery function is registered in the CMDB as configuration items (CI).


Figure 2.1 Overview of the discovery function

Hardware/virtual environment configuration to be collected

The following hardware/virtual environment configuration information can be collected using the discovery function:

The configuration information of the virtual environments is collected from VMware vSphere ESXi or OpenStack.

Table 2.1 Hardware configuration information collected by the discovery function (chassis, blade servers)

Device

Item

Example

Chassis body

Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX400 S1, BX600 S2/S3, BX900 S1/S2

Product name

BX900

Serial number

AA1234567890

Firmware version(*1)

5.32

Blade server

Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX620 S3 - S6, BX920 S1 - S4, BX922 S2, BX924 S2 - S4, BX960 S1

Slot number

1

Vendor name

FUJITSU

Product name

PRIMERGY BX920 S1

Serial number

BB1234567890

CPU Type

Xeon

Frequency

1995 MHz

Quantity

2

Memory size

4096 MB

Firmware version(*2)

551

BIOS version(*2)

3D41

OS name(*3)

VMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-1157734

*1: On PRIMERGY BX400 S1 and BX600 S2/S3, the firmware version cannot be discovered.

*2: On PRIMERGY BX620 S3 - S6, the firmware version and BIOS version cannot be discovered.

*3: Only when the version of the mounted hypervisor is VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 or later can discovery be performed.


Table 2.2 Hardware configuration information collected by the discovery function (rack mount servers)

Device

Item

Example

Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX100/RX200/RX300 S6 or later, RX1330/RX2520/RX2540 M1 or later

IBM System x3550 M4

HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 v2

Product name

PRIMERGY RX300 S7

Serial number

CC1234567890

CPU Type (*2)

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v2 @ 2.50GHz

Frequency(*3)

2500 MHz

Quantity

2

Memory size

4096 MB

OS name(*1)

VMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-1157734

*1: Only when the version of the mounted hypervisor is VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 or later can discovery be performed.

*2: On PRIMERGY RX100/RX200/RX300 S6 the CPU type cannot be discovered.

*3: On IBM servers and HP servers, the frequency cannot be discovered.


Table 2.3 Virtual environment configuration information collected by the discovery function (for VMware vSphere ESXi)

Hypervisor

Type

Item

Example

VMware vSphere ESXi

VM host information

OS name

VMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-1021289

CPU core count

8

MAC address

60:EB:69:07:F3:xx

IP address

192.168.1.12

VM guest information

Virtual machine name

VM001

OS name

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)

CPU core count

2

Frequency (GHz)

1.0

Memory size (GB)

2.0

MAC address

60:EB:69:07:D3:xx

IP address

192.168.10.122

Table 2.4 Virtual environment configuration information collected by the discovery function (for OpenStack)

Hypervisor

Type

Item

Example

KVM (QEMU)

VM host information

CPU core count

8

IP address

192.168.1.12

VM guest information

Virtual machine name

VM001

OS name

rhel 6.6

CPU core count

2

Frequency (GHz)

1.0

Memory size (GB)

2.0

MAC address

60:EB:69:07:D3:xx

IP address

192.168.10.122


Software configuration information collected

The following software configuration information can be collected using the discovery function:

Table 2.5 Software configuration information collected by the discovery function

Resource

Linkage product/linkage function

ServerView Resource Orchestrator

Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

yum(Yellowdog Updater Modified)

UpdateAdvisor (middleware)

Solaris

System configuration information

Resource information for the physical or virtual servers that make up the system (IP addresses and operating system information only)

Y

Y (*1)

Y (*1)

Y (*1)

Y (*1)

Tenant information

Y

-

-

-

-

L-Platform information

Y

-

-

-

-

Patch information

Windows patches

Information about Windows patches released by Microsoft

OS patch information

-

Y

-

-

-

Physical /virtual Windows servers where the patches can be applied

-

Y

-

-

-

Information about the OS patches that have already been applied to the physical/virtual Windows servers that make up the system

-

Y

-

-

-

Linux patches

Information about Linux patches (RPM packages) released by the Red Hat Network or the Fujitsu website

Information about OS patches (RPM packages)

-

-

Y

-

-

Physical/virtual Linux servers where the patches can be applied

-

-

Y

-

-

Information about the OS patches (RPM packages) that have already been applied to the physical/virtual Linux servers that make up the system

-

-

Y

-

-

Solaris OS Patches

Solaris OS patch (SRU) information released on the Oracle or Fujitsu website

OS patch (SRU) information

-

-

-

-

-

Applicable physical or virtual Solaris servers

-

-

-

-

-

Information about the OS patches (SRU) that have already been applied to the physical and virtual Solaris servers that comprise the system

-

-

-

-

Y

Middleware patches

Fujitsu middleware patches released on the UpdateSite

Fujitsu middleware patches

-

-

-

- (*2)

-

Physical/virtual servers where the patches can be applied

-

-

-

- (*3)

-

Information about the Fujitsu middleware patches that have already been applied to the physical/virtual servers that make up the system

-

-

-

Y

-

Software information

Information about the Fujitsu middleware products that have already been installed on the physical/virtual servers that make up the system

-

-

-

Y

-

Y: Can be collected.

-: Cannot be collected.

*1: IP addresses only

*2: This information is not collected by the swcfmg_patch_updateinfo command. Information about Fujitsu middleware patches is registered in the CMDB by executing swcfmg_fjmwpatch_update (Fujitsu Middleware Patch Registration command). Refer to the Reference Guide for details.

*3: swcfmg_fjmwpatch_update (Fujitsu Middleware Patch Registration command) registers authorization information about applicable physical or virtual servers in the CMDB. Refer to the Reference Guide for details.


The timing of discovery

Discovery is performed at the following times:

Regular discovery

With regular discovery, the latest configuration information is collected according to a schedule that the infrastructure administrator has defined in advance.

Figure 2.2 Regular discovery


Manual discovery

The infrastructure administrator collects the latest configuration information by executing the command to perform discovery.

Figure 2.3 Manual discovery