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IPv6 Import Tool

CA Common Discovery discovers IPv6 devices on your network. After discovery, you import the discovered information into the MDB using the WorldView Common Discovery Import service. The IPv6 Import tool is used to configure the import service.

This tool lets you perform the following actions:

• Identify the Discovery servers that have the IPv6 device information that you want to import
• Access the web-based CA Common Discovery configuration tool to define or edit the scan policy for a Discovery server
• Start and stop the import service
• Configure the import service's collection (poll) interval
• Control whether the service imports all discovered data or only changed information
• View the number of hosts, routers, and other devices added to the MDB during an import

IPv6 Import is one of the Unicenter MCC tools that you can access by selecting Tools from the drop-down list above the left pane.

This tool has the following fields and buttons:

Discovery Servers area

Lets you define one or more Discovery servers that provide information about IPv6 devices, include or exclude the defined servers from an import, and configure what those servers should discover.

The columns are:

Server

Lists defined servers.

When you double-click a server name, a connection settings dialog opens so that you can change the user name or password used to access the web-based Common Discovery configuration interface.

Status

Shows whether a server is accessed during an import. The status is Included or Excluded.

Default: Included

Configuration

Contains hyperlinks that open the CA Common Discovery configuration tool. This tool lets you configure, start, and maintain Discovery scans and purges. It also provides access to administrative information like scan history and logs.

The buttons are:

Add

Opens a dialog that lets you define a discovery server by entering the server name, protocol (http or https), port (8081 by default), and user name and password for accessing the server.

Delete

Removes the server from the list in the IPv6 Import tool. This server can no longer participate in the import.

Exclude

Prevents the server from the participating in the import. The status changes to Excluded and the icon to the left of the server name becomes red.

Include

Lets an excluded server participate again in the import. The status changes to Included and the icon to the left of the server name becomes green.

Select All

Selects all discovery servers in the list.

Service Statistics area

Shows how many hosts, routers, and other devices are added to the MDB as managed objects during the last data collection by the Common Discovery Import service.

Service Configuration area

Lets you start or stop an import, specify the polling interval, and indicate whether the service imports all discovery data or only changed information.

Start Service/Stop Service

Lets you start or stop an import. The label is Start Service when no import is taking place, and Stop Service when the Common Discovery Import service is running.

Collection Interval

Opens a dialog that lets you specify the number of minutes the import service should wait between each poll to discovery servers.

Default: 60 minutes

Reset Import

Controls whether the import service requests all discovered objects from Discovery servers or only objects that have been added or updated since the last collection. A dialog asks you to confirm that you want to import all objects in the discovery server database. A full import can be time- and resource-intensive.

Default: new information only

Note: For more information about Common Discovery, see the Common Discovery Help. For more information about the Common Discovery Import service and the IPv6 Import tool, see the MCC Help.