About the frequency of asset information discovery


About the frequency of asset information discovery
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After you add the asset infrastructure, for example virtualization servers, to the Infrastructure Management Server (IMS), the IMS discovers information about the assets and the information is displayed in the console. Thereafter, the IMS continues to discover and update the information. The following table describes how often the IMS performs discovery.

If you make changes to the asset infrastructure, such as adding or removing virtual machines, you can use the Refresh operation on assets in the IMS to manually initiate the discovery.

Note:

The discovery is triggered when configuration changes occur on the hosts. If configuration changes are not detected on the managed hosts, the communication between the host and IMS is restricted to the heartbeat communication that occurs every five minutes.

Asset type	Discovery interval in minutes	Discovered information
Host	1440	The operating system and networking for the host. Typically, this information does not change frequently.
Applications	360	Supported applications and their storage dependencies.
Hyper-V	120	Virtual machines and storage discovery.
VMware	360	ESX servers, virtual machines, and their storage dependencies.
Enclosures	360	Logical devices, physical devices, host associations, replications, and other storage array-specific properties.
Replication Appliance	360	Replication and storage dependencies

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