Using the Auto-Discovery Portlet

The Auto-Discovery portlet displays a list of servers and platform services that are auto-discovered but not auto-accepted. All SAS resources should be auto-discovered and auto-accepted, so they will not appear in this portlet. Resources that are listed on the portlet are known but are not yet being monitored. After the resources from the initial SAS installation have been discovered and added to the inventory, the Auto-Discovery portlet lists new resources from custom plug-ins that have been added to the monitored platforms.

To discover and add resources, follow these steps:

On the Dashboard, check the Auto-Discovery portlet to see whether new resources are listed.
Select the check box beside the resources that you want to monitor and select Add to Inventory.
Go to the Resources page. The resources you just added are listed in the appropriate table, together with any resources that are already being monitored. However, an Unknown icon () is displayed in the Availability column for the new resources, because SAS Environment Manager has not begun to collect monitoring data. SAS Environment Manager collects data at intervals rather than continuously, so you must wait for the next data-collection cycle.
After approximately five minutes, data should be collected for the new resources and the Availability column reflects the status of the resources.

If the status of a new resource is displayed as Unknown even after a period of waiting, then the resource might not be completely configured for data collection. To configure the resource, follow these steps:

In the Resource page, locate the resource whose status is unknown and click on the entry in the Resources table. The Monitor page for the selected resource is displayed.
A message is displayed if the resource needs to be configured. If you need to perform additional configuration steps, select Inventory to display configuration details for the resource.
Scroll to the Configuration Properties area of the page and verify that the properties are correct. Click Edit to make changes to the properties.