HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Discovery - FTW
HP SIM uses automatic discovery to find and identify systems on the network. The System Automatic
Discovery task is the default discovery task and is disabled by default. You can enable and configure
the System Automatic Discovery task by selecting to have it run immediately when First Time Wizard
finishes, or by selecting Options→Discovery from the HP SIM menu. You can create multiple
automatic discovery tasks from the Discovery page. See Configuring automatic discovery.
Procedure 14 Creating multiple automatic discovery tasks
1. Select Run discovery once after wizard finishes to have the System Automatic Discovery task
run immediately after First Time Wizard finishes.
2. To schedule the task to run at a specific time, select Schedule.
3. To configure the System Automatic Discovery task to run on a regular schedule, enter how
often the task should run. The default frequency is once per day. If you clear the Automatically
execute discovery every option, the task is disabled after it is created.
4. In the Ping inclusion ranges, system (hosts) names, and/or hosts files field, specify the IP
addresses. If you want to use this task to discover SMI-S storage systems, include the IP address
of each SMI CIMOM. You can also enter Simple or FQDN host names. However, you cannot
enter a range of host names. To use an existing hosts file, enter the hosts file name in the
following format: $HostsFileName .
5. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click Next, or to return to the previous step, click
Previous.
First Time Wizard related topics
Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign in credentials
From this page, you can set sign in and SNMP credentials for the System Automatic Discovery
task. This window is skipped if did not configure discovery in the First Time Wizard Discovery
window.
Procedure 15 Set sign in and SNMP credentials for the System Automatic Discovery task
1. To set the sign-in credentials for the System Automatic Discovery task, enter the user name
and password.
To add additional sign-in credentials, click Add. To delete existing sign-in credentials, click
Delete beside the credentials that you want to delete.
2. To have HP SIM try other credentials if the entered credentials fail, select If these credentials
fail, try other credentials that may apply....
3. Enter read community strings for SNMP credentials for the System Automatic Discovery task.
To add additional SNMP credentials, click Add. To delete existing SNMP credentials, click
Delete beside the credentials that you want to delete.
4. To have HP SIM try other credentials if the entered credentials fail, select If these credentials
fail, try other credentials that may apply....
5. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click Next, or to return to the previous step, click
Previous.
First Time Wizard related topics
Configuring managed systems
The Configure Managed Systems page in the First Time Wizard enables you to configure managed
systems as they are discovered and to specify parameters for running Configure or Repair Agents.
This step is skipped if you did not configure discovery on the First Time Wizard Discovery page.
All steps are optional and can be configured from the HP SIM Options menu at a later time. To
skip this step, click Next to go to the next First Time Wizard step.
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