This documentation supports the 20.08 (12.1) version of BMC Discovery.To view an earlier version of the product, select the version from the Product version menu.

tw_disco_control

The tw_disco_control utility enables you to manually control specific functions of the BMC Discovery process. To use the utility, type the following command at the $TIDEWAY/bin/ directory:

tw_disco_control [options] [opt=val ...]

where:

  • opt=val ... is a list of options to be set.
  • options are any of the options described in the following table and the common command line options described in Using-command-line-utilities.
Warning

Use caution when using the --emergency, --start, and --stop options to start or stop BMC Discovery. Stopping discovery does not stop the Reasoning process. You must restart the discovery process before you can restart any scheduled scans.

User example

In the following example, you can stop a discovery scan in progress.

Stopping the discovery process

$TIDEWAY/bin/tw_disco_control
--stop

Any regular scans and snapshot scans currently in progress will stop, and no subsequent scans can be started until you restart the discovery process.

 

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