HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

3. Obtain additional data, such as license data or Web agents that might be written to the
database directly, and attributes that can be queried (such as CPU and memory data).
4. Run association algorithms based on system type identified in the first step.
For newly found automatically discovered systems, before the system is added to the database,
any discovery filters are applied. If a system does not match the discovery filter, it is not added to
the database, and no additional tasks or requests are made to that system. After the system passes
the filter, it is added to the database. At this time, the system is available to polling tasks, collections,
or other operations.
NOTE: Discovery filters do not apply to manually discovered systems.
HP SIM performs initial hardware and software status polling and initial data collection on newly
added systems. See Hardware status polling, Software status polling, and Data collection for more
information about each task. The information about the systems is stored in the database.
The time to complete the discovery and identification processes varies with the network size and
resources. All necessary tasks are predefined in HP SIM. Predefined tasks cannot be removed from
the system, but they can be disabled if necessary. You can also create a new identification task
and schedule it to run when you want to update identification information from systems. See the
HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide, at http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/sim/
docs, for information on managing default tasks.
By default, HP SIM runs the System Identification task once per day and when new systems are
discovered. Most users do not need to schedule identification tasks to run more than once per day.
If VMware tools are installed on the guest, the UUID, host name, and primary IP address of the
virtual machine host are collected. If VMware tools are not installed, only the UUID is collected. In
this case, the virtual machine guest is named as >VMHost_Name<_>Display Name<, where
VMHost_Name is the name of the guest host system, and Display Name is the display name of
the guest in VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client.
Initial identification
After a system is newly discovered or rediscovered, HP SIM attempts to identify it. The discovery
task is not 100% complete until all the systems have been identified.
Identifying systems
To identify systems between discoveries, select Options→Identify Systems. The Identify Systems
page appears. From this page, select target systems to add. See Creating a task for more information
about selecting targets.
Discovery related information
Managing system types
System Type Manager is a utility that modifies the default behavior of identification. System Type
Manager enables you to customize the type and product name of third-party systems using rules
based on responses to SNMP lists from systems on your network.
IMPORTANT: For most HP systems, the system type and product name cannot be modified.
Identification can be customized based on SNMP System OIDs for all other fields. Manufacturers
assign unique system OIDs to their SNMP-instrumented products. System Type Manager enables
you to customize identification by creating rules that map these system OIDs to product categories
and names. You must have administrative rights to use System Type Manager.
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