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.

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

The timing of discovery

Discovery is performed at the following times:

Regular discovery
Discovery is executed periodically according to a schedule.
Manual discovery
Discovery is manually performed by the infrastructure administrator executing a command.

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