Discovery process is one of the routine Smarts administration tasks. Smarts Availability Manager (AM) Discovery can be initiated ad-hoc from the Smarts Domain Manager Administration Console (requires administrator level access) or can be scheduled to run periodically, off hours, etc. when the network is less utilized.
To analyze the results of the discovery can be a time consuming task for administrators (and not feasible without administrative access) since it requires checking verbose log files, discovery pending list, notifications, etc.
Smarts Discovery Reporter has been developed to help interested parties to easily access and analyze the results of the Smarts discovery process without requiring admin level access to the Smarts system. Smarts Discovery Reporter is implemented on top of the RapidWatcher and mainly does the following:
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Monitors the Smarts AM servers and detects when Smarts discovery is run.
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Compares before and after to determine new devices (UnitaryComputerSystem) and connections (NetworkConnection)
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Creates an html report for each discovery. Html reports are served by RapidWatcher web server, hence accessible via any web browser.
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Allows execution of custom actions (via scripts) after the discovery process is complete (emailing the report, creating a ticket etc.)
Both RapidWatcher and the Smarts Discovery Report Tool are available as open source, hence you can customize/enhance just the way you like it. There is a readme file to get it up and running within a minute :)
We'd appreciate if you let us know any issues, bugs you may run into.
