HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Discovery related information
Related procedures
Configuring automatic discovery
Configuring automatic discovery settings of VM guests
Configuring discovery general settings
Creating a new discovery task
Configuring credentials for discovery tasks
Configuring Configure or Repair Agents for discovery tasks
Editing a discovery task
Disabling or enabling an existing discovery task
Deleting a discovery task
Running a discovery task
Creating a new hosts file
Editing a hosts file
Deleting a hosts file
Adding systems in a hosts file to the HP SIM database
Related topics
Recommended discovery tasks
Identification overview
Discovery filters
Data collection
Discovery filters
Discovery filters prevent or enable certain system types from being added to the database through
automatic discovery. When you want to discover systems of a certain type, using filters is much
easier than specifying the IP addresses of each individual system. Discovery filters do not apply to
manually added systems.
You can access discovery filters in one of the following ways:
• From the Discovery page, select Options→Discovery. From the Automatic tab, click Configure
general settings, and then select Enable discovery filters.
• From the Home page, in the Manage section, click Tune and filter discovery. The Discovery
page appears. In the For all automatic discoveries section, select Configure general settings,
and then select Enable discovery filters.
• From the introductory page, in the Do this now to complete the installation section, click
Configure discovery and credentials. The Discovery page appears. Click Configure general
settings and then select Enable discovery filters.
To disable filters, clear the Enable discovery filters checkbox. To enable filters, select the Enable
discovery filters checkbox, and then select the system types that you want to discover.
To access and modify discovery filters, you must have administrative rights. If discovery filters are
enabled, only systems of the selected types are added to the database through automatic discovery.
Because all tasks operate on systems that exist in the database, tasks do not run on any system
until the filter criteria has been met and that system has been added to the database. Filters do
not affect any systems already discovered, even if the systems change to a type that no longer
matches the current filter. If discovery filters are disabled, automatic discovery discovers systems
according to the General Settings for All Discoveries section. See Configuring discovery general
settings for more information about configuring discovery filters.
If you do not discover the HP systems that you expect to find, ensure that the Insight Management
Advisors are installed and running correctly on the target systems. In addition, verify that the SNMP
Community Strings settings and WBEM user name and passwords in HP SIM and on the agents
for systems that are not discovered or configured correctly. See Protocol settings for more
information.
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