Viewing a hardware container

The enclosure is discovered when a management controller is discovered using by SNMP. The enclosure is modeled as a Management Controller node. The creation of a management controller node triggers an additional pattern, which creates the hardware container node, collects additional information about the contents of the enclosure, and triggers further patterns to relate the components.

Blade enclosures are typically hardware containers that contain a number of physical hosts, a management controller, and various network modules such as network or SAN switches.

When a computer is logically partitioned into a number of hosts, as opposed to containing physically separate devices, the Host-Container-node is used.

To view a hardware container

1. From the main menu, select Explore > Data.
   The Infrastructure page opens.
2. In the Hosts & Host Containers section, click Hardware Container.
3. Select a hardware container from the list, as illustrated in the following screen.
   
   

The following table describes the information fields for a typical hardware container.