Scheduling SLP discovery Setting up the Service Location Protocol Directory Agent

Perform this task to schedule a Service Location Protocol (SLP) discovery. Use the IBM Director Scheduler interface to run the task immediately or at a later date and time.

An MDM discovery task appears as a noninteractive task in the Director Scheduler. This task is not created, nor can it be changed or modified by a user.

Steps

Perform the following steps to define or change the schedule for an SLP discovery task:

  1. On the IBM Director menu bar, click Task.
  2. From the Task menu, cllick Scheduler. The Scheduler interface opens.
  3. Click the Task tab. The list of SLP discovery tasks (and performance collection tasks) are displayed in the New Scheduled Job notebook.
  4. Select the SLP discovery task to be scheduled.
  5. Click the Date/Time tab in the New Scheduled Job notebook to set or change the date and time for the selected SLP discovery task.
  6. Click OK to save the job and name it.
  7. (Optional) Right-click on the saved job to display the context menu. You can perform the following optional tasks from the menu:
    1. Click Execute now to run a scheduled job immediately.
    2. Click Delete to delete a scheduled job at any time.
Result

The IBM Director activates the SLP discovery task on the dates and times specified in the scheduler.

Related topics Setting up the Service Location Protocol Directory Agent

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