Importing Resource Information

Prerequisites

• You have configured a license by referring to License Configuration.
• You have added credentials by referring to Credential Management.
• You have installed the server 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 > Servers.
3. Click Import Resources in the upper right corner of the page.
   Figure 1 Importing resources
   

4. Click Serverstemplate and set template parameters by referring to Table 1.

   

   Table 1 Parameters

   Sheet	Parameter	Description
   Server Info	Server Name	Custom server name
   	Server OS Type	Server OS
   	Server IP	Server IP address
   	Credential Id	Name for the credential for logging in to the server
   	Username	Username for logging in to the server
   	Password	Password for logging in to the server
   	Port	Port

5. Click Select File to import the filled template and click OK.
6. After the information is imported, view the credential binding status and resource discovery status of the related resources in the server list.
   

   After the information is imported, the system automatically checks the credential binding status and discovers the resources.

Follow-Up Operations

After the resource information is imported, you can perform the following operations:

The following uses server resources as an example.

• Viewing the discovery results

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

  • If the icon is , the discovery succeeds.
  • If the icon is , the discovery fails.
• Viewing the cause of a discovery failure

  Hover over and view the failure cause.

• Modifying the credential information or access IP address

  If the cause of a discovery failure is that the username or password is incorrect or the IP address does not match the username or password, the bound credential or access IP address is incorrect. You can perform the following steps to modify it:

  1. Locate the server and click Modify in the Operation column.

     

  2. Modify the IP address or click Add Credential and configure the parameters, and click OK. For details, see 4.
• Rediscovering a server

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