HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Creating an automatic discovery task using the command line interface
Users with administrative rights can use the mxtask command to create an automatic discovery
task from the CLI.
For information about accessing the manpage, see the HP Systems Insight Manager Command
Line Interface Guide, at http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/sim/docs.
Discovery related information
Configuring credentials for discovery tasks
Discovery task credentials can apply to all systems in the associated discovery task and enable
you to configure default credentials for a subset of your environment.
Sign-in credentials apply to multiple protocols and enable HP SIM to access the managed system.
SNMP credentials enable you to set global-level read community strings. SNMPv3, WBEM/WMI
and WS-MAN are protocol specific credentials.
During the identification process (done automatically during discovery), credentials are tried,
starting with System Credentials. If they do not work, and the Try Others setting is chosen for them,
then Discovery credentials are used. Similarly, if those do not work and the Try Others setting is
chosen, then Global Credentials are tried. As soon as a credential is found that works, Systems
Insight Manager notes that credential as working and continues to use it for regular communications
with the managed system as long as it continues to work. If it should fail, then the process is
repeated the next time identification is run. To see the working credentials for any managed system,
go to the System Credentials page (Options→Security→Credentials→System Credentials). These
working credentials appear in the Credentials that are in use table.
This procedure enables you to set credentials attempted during a discovery task. Perform these
steps from the New Discovery Task or the Edit Discovery Task sections of the Discovery page.
Credentials are applied in the following order:
1. Working (might reference system, discovery, or global credentials)
2. System level protocol specific
3. System level Sign-in
4. Discovery level protocol specific
5. Discovery level protocol Sign-in
6. Global Sign-in
Creating and editing discovery credentials for a single system
NOTE: When configuring credentials for a single system discovery, you are configuring system
credentials for that system, not discovery credentials for the task.
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