Discovery Records

This section contains the following topics:

The following section describes Discovery records.

The discovery record contains information about discovery settings that are used to manage how the BFC discovers servers.

A discovery record contains the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
enabled	boolean	Read-only field that lists whether discovery is enabled in the BFC.
mode	string	Read-only field that specifies the discovery mode of the BFC: manual or auto.
mac_addresses	[discovery_mac_ address]	Read-only field that lists the MAC addresses that are used in manual or auto discovery. In manual mode, the mac_addresses are the list of MACs to be discovered. In auto mode, the mac_addresses are the list of MACs that are ignored and not discovered.
default_tags	[string]	Read-only field that lists the default tags automatically associated with a discovered server.

The discovery_mac_address record contains information about the MAC address in the mac_addresses list.

A discovery_mac_address record contains the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
mac_address	string	Read-only field that contains the discovered MAC address.
description	integer	Field that describes the discovered MAC address.