HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

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DescriptionName
Tool types, parameterized strings, filtering, version
numbers, document type definition, and other requirements.
Custom tools reference
Supported in custom tool parameters and work as
parameters on the New Custom Tool page or the Manage
Custom Tools page.
Custom tool environment variables
Recommended discovery tasks
For best results, HP recommends creating the following discovery tasks, and running them
sequentially in the suggested order. You might want to create multiple tasks for certain types, such
as servers, grouping them so that systems with the same credentials are in the same discovery
tasks, with up to three sets of credentials supplied in each discovery task. This reduces the chance
of account lockout when an invalid credential is tried too many times.
NOTE: Be sure to add your Central Management Server (CMS) to the recommended task that
includes the type of system that hosts the CMS.
1. Onboard Administrator
This discovery task is for discovery of the Onboard Administrators for every enclosure to be
managed. When specifying credentials for this task, include the HP iLO credentials for every
blade in the enclosures associated with the Onboard Administrators.
2. Management Processors
This discovery task is for discovery of all management processors not discovered in the previous
tasks. This includes HP iLO and management processors for all non-blade systems.
3. Physical Servers
This discovery task is for discovery of physical servers (blade servers and standalone servers).
4. Virtual Machines
This discovery task is for discovery of virtual machines, with appropriate credentials, along
with the virtual machine host that are ssociated with servers discovered in the previous category.
NOTE: If discovery tasks are run out of order, errors are likely. Typical errors due to running
discovery tasks in an improper order include:
• Association errors
For example, a server not associated with a management processor or virtual machine not
associated with a virtual machine host.
• Credentials errors
Because discovery of systems can trigger additional discovery of associated systems or
management processors, if the correct credentials are not supplied for the associated systems,
their discoveries are likely to show errors. If you discover these associated systems with a
subsequent discovery task containing the proper credentials, they should then complete
successfully.
NOTE: Citrix Xen VMs discovered in category 5 will always return a discovery error unless the
Citrix Xen Host has been registered through Configure→Virtual Machine→Register Virtual Machine
Host.
If you have a small network, an alternate way of setting up your discovery tasks is to create a
single task with one IP address range and all of the required credentials for the systems in that
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