HP Storage Essentials V5.1 Installation Guide First Edition (T4283-96025, August 2006)

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8. You can configure the management server to obtain information about your master backup
servers at a set interval. See the topic, “Scheduling Backup Collection for Master Servers” in the
HP SE User Guide for more information about collectors.
Step B - Set Up Discovery for Hosts
You can discover your hosts by using two methods:
Discovery from HP SIM
1. Discover your hosts. Refer to the HP SIM documentation for more information. See Table 5 on
page 212.
2. Run Discovery Data Collection. See ”Step D - Obtain Details” on page 217.
Use the following table as a guideline.
Discovery from HP SE
1. Discover your hosts as described in this section.
2. Build the topology. See ”Step B - (Discovery from HP SE Only) Build the Topology” on
page 216.
3. If you want to view the topology, you can access System Manager. See ”(Optional) Step C -
(Discovery from HP SE Only)View the Topology” on page 216.
4. Perform Get Details. See ”Step D - Obtain Details” on page 217.
Table 5 (Discovery from HP SIM) Discovering Hosts
Step Description
1 If you have several hosts that use the same password and user name, set that
password and user name as the default. Use the Global Settings (Options >
Protocol Settings > Global Settings) feature to set your default passwords.
Refer to the documentation that ships with SIM for more information.
2 Discover your host (Options > Discovery > Automatic).
One way to detect multiple IP addresses at once is to add an IP range for
scanning. The management server scans the IP range for elements and
populates the discovery list with element it could contact.
You can then discover those elements. See ”Adding an IP Range for
Scanning” on page 38 for more information.
3 Discovery Data Collection is required to obtain information from your
discovered elements. Discovery Data Collection takes some time. You might
want to perform this process when the network and the managed elements
are not busy. Click Options > Storage Essentials > Discovery > Run
Discovery Data Collection.
See ”Step D - Obtain Details” on page 217.