Discovering Gear
Gear Discovery allows Sun xVM Ops Center to determine what hardware, operating systems, and virtualization tools are present in the data center.
Three discovery methods are available:
- Custom Discovery – Uses standard protocols such as SSH, IPMI, Telnet, and SNMP to discover gear
- Automatic Discovery – Searches for service tags attached to gear
- Declare Gear – Uses a manual discovery file to discover gear
| Content | Description |
|---|---|
| Custom Discovery | Use standard protocols such as SSH, IPMI, Telnet, and SNMP to discover gear. |
| Automatic Discovery | Discover gear equipped with service tags. |
| Declare Gear | Use a manual discovery file to discover gear. |
| Discovering a SPARC Enterprise M-Series Server | Use this special procedure to discover SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers. |
| Discovering Zones | Use this special procedure to discover zones. |
Where to Go From Here
See Managing and Registering Gear for information about how to manage and register discovered gear.



