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A vDiscovery job retrieves information about virtual entities in cloud environments that are managed through CMPs such as VMware, OpenStack, and AWS. You must first select a member to run the vDiscovery job. To ensure that the job is executed properly, verify the connection between the discovering member and the discovered endpoint. If you select HTTPS as the protocol for communication, you must upload either an SSL CA (Certified Authority) certificate or a self-signed SSL certificate to the Grid. For information about how to upload a certificate, see Managing Certificates.

Note that when you disable any virtual entities or interfaces on the CMP, the appliance excludes them from the vDiscovery job. In situations where the discovering member you select to perform vDiscovery jobs is disconnected from the Grid Master, the member continues to execute vDiscovery jobs based on the configured schedule. Newly discovered data replaces previously discovered data. The last set of discovered data is considered the most
up-to-date and is sent to the Grid Master when the member reconnects with the Grid Master.
When you configure vDiscovery jobs, you can enable the Infoblox NIOS appliance to automatically create DNS records for discovered IP addresses of VM instances that are served by the NIOS appliance. You can configure the appliance to add DNS records for specific DNS views associated with the network view defined for public and private IP addresses of VM instances served by the appliance. For more information about this feature, see Creating DNS Records for Newly Discovered VMs.
Before you configure and start a vDiscovery job, there are a few guidelines to consider. For more information, see
Guidelines for Configuring vDiscovery Jobs.

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