HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

8. To save settings, click OK, or to close the General Settings for All Discoveries section without
saving changes, click Cancel.
If you click OK when discovery filters are enabled but have not selected any system types, the
following error message appears:
You must make at least one system type selection when enabling
filters.
9. Select System Automatic Discovery. Click one of the following options to schedule it for ongoing
operations or to make other changes: Edit, Enable, View Task Results, or Run Now. If you
would like to create other discovery tasks, click New.
The Discovery page General Settings for All Discoveries section is not protected from multiple users
accessing the page at the same time. The last user to save the settings has his or her settings take
affect. If discovery is in progress and the settings are applied by a different user or the same user,
any remaining systems to be processed have the new settings applied.
Discovery related information
Creating a new discovery task
HP SIM ships includes one default discovery task (System Automatic Discovery). However, you can
create a new discovery task to discover specific systems. For example, if you want to discover
systems in a specific IP address range. You can set the task to run at scheduled times using specific
ping inclusion ranges, templates, or hosts files. For HP recommended discovery tasks, see
Recommended discovery tasks.
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