HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

5 Discovery and identification.......................................................................91
Automatic discovery..............................................................................................................................91
Internet Protocol...............................................................................................................................91
Event-based automatic discovery........................................................................................................91
First discovery.......................................................................................................................................92
Subsequent discoveries..........................................................................................................................92
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Hosts files............................................................................................................................................92
Options for adding a single system....................................................................................................92
Configuring automatic discovery.............................................................................................................94
Creating a new discovery task...........................................................................................................95
Creating an automatic discovery task using the command line interface.............................................96
Configuring credentials for discovery tasks..........................................................................................96
Sign-in credentials......................................................................................................................97
For a single system:...............................................................................................................97
For groups of systems:............................................................................................................97
SNMP credentials.......................................................................................................................97
For a single system:...............................................................................................................97
For groups of systems:............................................................................................................97
WBEM credentials......................................................................................................................97
For a single system:...............................................................................................................97
For groups of systems:............................................................................................................98
WS-MAN credentials..................................................................................................................98
For a single system:...............................................................................................................98
For groups of systems:............................................................................................................98
Configuring Configure or Repair Agents for discovery tasks...................................................................98
Configuring system types for discovery tasks........................................................................................99
Editing a discovery task..................................................................................................................100
Disabling or enabling an existing discovery task................................................................................101
Deleting a discovery task................................................................................................................101
Running a discovery task................................................................................................................102
System types.................................................................................................................................102
System discovered by HP SIM..........................................................................................................104
HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager systems discovered by HP SIM................................................104
Storage devices discovered by HP SIM........................................................................................105
StorageWorks XP.................................................................................................................105
StorageWorks VA................................................................................................................105
StorageWorks EVA..............................................................................................................105
StorageWorks MSA.............................................................................................................105
StorageWorks Tape Library...................................................................................................105
EMC Array.........................................................................................................................105
HDS Array..........................................................................................................................106
StorageWorks EVA..............................................................................................................106
Network Appliance NAS......................................................................................................106
StorageWorks NAS.............................................................................................................106
Fibre Channel.....................................................................................................................106
Obtaining, installing, and configuring providers and agents...........................................................106
Configuring management protocols.............................................................................................108
Sending test traps and indications...............................................................................................108
Configuring automatic discovery general settings....................................................................................109
Discovery filters.............................................................................................................................111
Managing hosts files...........................................................................................................................111
Creating a new hosts file................................................................................................................112
Hosts file format.......................................................................................................................112
Editing a hosts file..........................................................................................................................113
Deleting a hosts file........................................................................................................................114
Adding systems in a hosts file to the HP SIM database........................................................................114
Creating a task to import a hosts file for HP SIM integration................................................................114
Importing the .dat file................................................................................................................115
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