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Discover Environments

You can discover virtual environments and Microsoft Clusters during the installation of AIMs when using a custom CA Server Automation manager installation. If possible, provide the required data about managed servers in the installation dialogs. You can skip the configuration during installation and perform the configuration later.

To configure the AIMs and discover virtual environments after a custom installation, do one of the following:

• Open the Administration tab from the user interface, change to Configuration, Provisioning and select the appropriate server type to add credentials and configure the AIM. CA Server Automation automatically discovers the physical and virtual components and populates the Management Database.
• Use NodeCfgUtil.exe utility on a Windows AIM Server to add the required data for managing virtual environments. The utility is located in the SystemEDGE_install_path\plugins\AIPCommon directory. Then rediscover the AIM Server from the CA Server Automation manager. This option lets you manually perform the required steps.

Consider the following guidelines

• The users specified for accessing virtual environments and Microsoft Clusters must have sufficient privileges to allow remote access.
• To manage Hyper-V Servers, install SystemEDGE and the Hyper-V AIM on the Hyper-V Server. SystemEDGE and the Hyper-v AIM must run on the same Hyper-V Server. Then configure the AIM and discover the Hyper-V Server.
• Verify that SystemEDGE and the AIMs which do not run on the CA Server Automation manager server use the same SNMP settings as their associated CA Server Automation manager.
• To manage VMware Infrastructure or vSphere, enter the credentials for the corresponding vCenter Servers.
• Install VMware Tools on all VMware VMs. If VMware tools are not installed on a VM, some features do not work properly.

  VMware Tools optimize the virtualization of VMs. Without these tools, many features are not available. For further information, see the VMware documentation.

To discover vCenter Servers, Solaris Zones Servers, HMC/IVM Servers, Microsoft Clusters, Cisco UCS Servers, Active Directory, or Exchange Servers from an AIM Server

1. Run the NodeCfgUtil.exe utility on a Windows AIM Server to update the configuration data for the corresponding AIMs.

   The NodeCfgUtil.exe utility stores the data in zone.cfg, vc.cfg, ucs.cfg, lpar.cfg, mscs.cfg, or esad.cfg.

2. Open the user interface on the Manager Server and click Resources, Data Center in the navigation pane.
3. Right-click and select Management, Discover.

   The discovery options appear.

4. Select one of the following:
   • Discover a system
   • Discover a network

   The corresponding dialog opens.

5. Enter a system name of a vCenter Server, Solaris Zones Server, Microsoft Cluster, Cisco UCS Server, or HMC/IVM Server that you want to manage. Alternatively, you can enter network properties for the discovery process. Click OK.

   CA Server Automation starts the discovery process.

   The discovered resources appear in the Explore pane.

More Information

How to Configure the vCenter Server Management Components