Discovery Flow
The Server Manager discovers and monitors various vCloud Director components via REST
API .
The Server Manager imports initial
topology from the IP Availability Manager. After the topology is imported, Server
Manager discovers domain-specific entities related to the features and creates
additional topology objects for those features.
As a first step of discovery, vCD (vCloud
Director) is discovered based on ICMP discovery. On discovery of vCloud Director
(Host) in SMARTS-IP domain manager, SMARTS ESM server imports the Host from IP
Domain Manager and further does a complete discovery of vCloud Director
topology.
vCloud Director(vCD) Discovered
Components are:
- Cloud Controller
- Organization (Tenant)
- Organization vDC
- Provider vDC
- vApp (Virtual Appliance)
vCD Components in
ESM

Smarts Model Representation of
vCD Components in ESM
vCD components table summarizes list of
the vCD components used in Server Manager.
vCD Components | Smarts Model Representation of vCD Components in ESM |
|---|---|
vCloud Director | CloudController |
Organization | Tenant |
OrganizationVDC | OrganizationVDC |
ProviderVDC | ProviderVDC |
vApp | VirtualAppliance |