Discovering Container Resources

Prerequisites

• You have configured a license by referring to License Configuration.
• You have added credentials by referring to Credential Management.
• You have installed the container collector by referring to Plugin Management.

Procedure

1. Double-click the RDA icon on the desktop or RDA.exe in the installation directory to start the RDA client. Enter the username and password to log in to the RDA console.
2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Discovery > Containers.
3. Choose Actions > Add in the upper left corner of the page.
   Figure 1 Adding a container
   

4. Enter a user-defined name and select a container credential.
   If no credentials are added in advance, click Add Credential next to the Credential box. In the expanded area, enter the credential name, select the authentication, add a file and upload it, and click Save Credential. Then click OK. To learn how to add a credential, see Credential Management.

   

   View the added container in the list. The system automatically checks the credential binding status and discovers the container.

Follow-Up Operations

After a container is added to RDA, you can perform the following operations:

• Viewing the discovery results

  In the container list, locate a container and view the status icon in the Status column.

  • If the icon is , the resource discovery is successful. You can click the server name to view the collected server details.
  • If the icon is , the resource discovery fails.
• Viewing the cause of a discovery failure

  Hover over in the container status column and view the failure cause.

• Associating a credential to containers in a batch

  If multiple containers use the same credential, you can associate the credential to these containers at the same time.

  1. In the container list, select the containers to be associated with the same credential and click Associate Credential.
  2. Select an existing credential or click Add Credential to create one. Enter the credential name and upload a configuration file. Then click OK.
• Rediscovering a container

  After handling the discovery failure, select the container and choose Actions > Rediscover in the upper left corner to rediscover the container.

• Adding a tag

  If you add multiple containers to RDA, you can tag them for more efficient management and search.

  1. Select the container to which you want to add a tag and click Actions > Manage Tags.

  2. Select one or more tags. A tag value can be empty.

     If no tags meet your requirements, click and create a tag by referring to Tag Management.

• Quick search

  On the Containers page, you can use the search box and select search criteria to quickly search for container resources.