HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

• Automatically discover VM guest(s) when the host is identified. Adds all VM guest systems
to the HP SIM database when the VM host (HPVM VMWare ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V)
system is discovered and identified. This option is selected by default.
If this option is not selected when a VMWare ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V host is discovered,
then guests are not discovered automatically. However, if one of its guests is moved to
another before being discovered in HP SIM and if that guest is discovered later, it is
associated with the old host. To avoid this, either the old host or new host must be identified
before guest is discovered
For automatic identification of virtual machine guests running on a virtual machine host,
the IP address of the guest is required. To acquire the IP address from WBEM Providers,
VMWare tools must be installed on the virtual machine guests.
• Automatically discover other virtual partitions within the same vPar Monitor when one of
the virtual partitions is identified. This option is selected by default.
• Automatically discover all nPars within the same complex when one of the nPars is
identified. This option is selected by default.
• Automatically discover Vmware ESX host server in lockdown enabled mode
3. In the Ping exclusion ranges, templates and/or hosts files field, specify the IP addresses,
templates, or hosts files containing IP addresses to exclude from the automatic discovery
process. You can also enter Simple or FQDN host names. However, you cannot enter a range
of host names. This field applies to both range-pinging and event-based automatic discovery.
See HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide for more information on entering IP ranges.
IMPORTANT: When discovering clusters, the ping inclusion range must include the IP
addresses of the cluster and the cluster members.
4. To select the types of systems HP SIM discovers, select Enable discovery filters. For more
information, see Discovery filters for more information.
5. In the section, Discover the following system types, select the type of systems to be discovered.
When discovering clusters, you must include the server system type, so that the cluster members
are not filtered out.
This option is available only when you select Enable discovery filters.
6. In the Limit discovery to systems which meet the following criteria section, select from the
following:
• Any system that matches the above filter
• All manageable systems (WBEM, SNMP, WMI, WS-MAN, SSH, or HTTP support)
• Manageable systems with HP agents only
The option, Limit discovery to systems which meet the following criteria is available only when
you select Enable discovery filters.
7. (Optional) Enter VM hosts IP range that you do not want to include in the automatic discovery
of VM guests.
IP exclusion ranges can consist of the following:
• Single IP address
• Multiple IP addresses separated by semi-colon
• Range of IP addresses separated by dash
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