HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Deleting a hosts file
NOTE: Delete hosts files only if you no longer need them or if you are creating a new hosts file.
Procedure 59 Deleting hosts files
1. Ensure that the selected hosts file is not in use. A hosts file is not in use when:
• There are no references to it in the Ping exclusion ranges, templates and/or hosts files
section of the general settings page.
• There are no references to it in the Ping inclusion ranges, templates, and/or hosts files
section of every existing discovery task.
2. Select hosts files.
3. Click Delete. A confirmation box appears.
4. Click OK to delete the hosts files, or click Cancel to cancel the delete process.
Discovery related information
Adding systems in a hosts file to the HP SIM database
Procedure 60 Adding hosts files
1. Select hosts files.
2. Click Add Systems Now.
HP SIM reads in the hosts file and adds the systems.
Discovery related information
Identification overview
The identification process follows automatic or manual system discovery and identifies the following
information about the discovered system:
• Management protocol the system uses (for example, SNMP, WBEM, HTTP, SSH, or
WS-Management)
NOTE: By default, HP SIM supports WS-Management identification on the standard SSL
port 443. The addition of WS-Management support does not affect existing identification or
discovery of a management processor using other protocols such as WBEM or SNMP.
WSMAN:1.0 appears as a Management Protocol along with all other supported management
protocols on the system page System tab of the System page.
• Type of system (for example, server, client, management processor, storage, switch, router,
or cluster)
• Product name of the system
• Operating system name, type, and version
• Associations, such as a management processor in server
During identification, remote enclosures have a generic name (format: Encl_SerialNumber) assigned
to them until one server from every enclosure is discovered and identified. Then, the enclosures
contain the name of the enclosure assigned to the enclosure.
HP SIM collects and recognizes the product ID and serial number, and most importantly, how to
handle the server-to-management processor associations using the UUID instead of the serial number.
The following processes occur sequentially for each system that is identified by HP SIM:
1. Identify the type of system, supported protocols, and limited attributes (such as the operating
system type).
2. Filter out systems that do not meet the filter criteria (if the system is new).
Discovery in HP SIM 207