Verify the hosts currently available for scavenging

For planning or monitoring purposes, you may wish to identify at a glance those hosts that are scavenge-ready (configured) and those that are currently available to participate in scavenging (enabled). This is normally done through the Platform Management Console.

For host scavenging to work properly, hosts must be both configured and enabled for host scavenging.

Restriction:

Host scavenging is a feature for use with Platform Symphony.

  1. From the Console, click Resources > Monitor/Control Hosts > Hosts (List View).
    Note:

    You cannot view scavenge-ready or enabled hosts from Hosts (Icon View).

  2. If Resource Attr does not display as a column heading in the resource list, click Preferences, and then select Resource Attr from the checklist.
    1. From the checklist, also select agtctrl (agent control flag).
    2. Set the sort order to either Resource Attr (to easily identify those hosts in the list configured for scavenging) or agtctrl (to easily identify those hosts in the list with scavenging enabled).
    3. Click Apply to set the preferences to the host list, and then click Close.
  3. Locate the Resource Attr column in the host list to see which hosts are tagged (configured) as scavenge ready.

    Those hosts that can be potentially scavenged display the resource tag scvg.

  4. Locate the agtctrl column in the host list to see which hosts have scavenging turned on or off.
    • On: Indicates that this host is currently available (enabled) to participate in host scavenging and to run opportunistic workload assigned by Platform Symphony.

    • Off: Indicates that the scavenging agent is not upholding the thresholds by opening or closing the host.