5.8.5

Discover Resources
You typically define resources to vCenter Operations Manager through the manual discovery process.
Discovering resources is usually more efficient than adding resources individually.
NOTE You use discovery to define resources for embedded adapters. Resources that use external adapters
are already added to vCenter Operations Manager and do not need to be discovered.
If the adapter type does not support discovery, you must add resources individually. See “Add an
Individual Resource,” on page 21.
Prerequisites
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Add adapter instances for the resources that you plan to define or, if you plan to add adapter instances
during the discovery process, become familiar with defining adapter instances. See “Add an Adapter
Instance,” on page 15.
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If you plan to add an attribute package during the discovery process, become familiar with creating
attribute packages. See “Creating Attribute Packages,” on page 42.
Procedure
1 Select Environment > Environment Overview.
2 On the List tab, click the Discover Resources icon.
3 Select the collector to use from the Collector drop-down menu.
Unless you added additional collectors, the only available collector is vCenter Operations Server. You
can change the name of this collector when you install the standalone version.
4 Select the adapter kind from the Adapter kind drop-down menu.
5 Select an adapter instance from the Adapter instance drop-down menu, or click Add to create a new
adapter instance.
6 Make any additional selections for the adapter kind.
Depending on the adapter kind that you select, additional menus might appear.
7 (Optional) To omit resources that have already been added from the discovery results, select the Only
New Resources check box.
8 Click OK to start the discovery process.
The discovery process can take several seconds to several minutes.
When the discovery process is finished, the Discovery Results window lists your resource kinds.
9 Double-click each resource kind that contains resources to add.
The resource list shows all of the resources of the specified resource kind. You can sort the resource list
by clicking any column header. To find a specific resource in the list, type all or part of the resource
name in the Search text box and click Search.
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