HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Discovery in HP SIM
Configuring discovery general settings
Performing Initial setup
Initial setup process
1. Set up managed systems
To set up managed systems, install the required management agents and configure HP SIM
software. See Setting up managed systems for more information.
2. Configure storage systems
If you have storage systems on your network, you must install and configure their SMI-S
providers before HP SIM can discover them.
3. Configure protocol settings
Configuring the protocol settings defines what systems are added to HP SIM using discovery
in the next step. See Protocol settings for more information.
If you ran the First Time Wizard, the protocol settings might already be configured.
IMPORTANT: If you have storage systems on your network, you must add the user name
and password for each SMI CIMOM to the Default WBEM settings section of the Global
Protocol Settings page. If you do not add this information, your storage systems are not
discovered.
4. Configure discovery
Discovery is the process that HP SIM uses to find and identify the systems on your network
and populate the database with that information. A system must first be discovered to collect
data and track system health status. Automatic discovery searches the network for systems
running specific protocols. It runs automatically every 24 hours, but the process can be manually
executed or scheduled to execute at other times. See Configuring automatic discovery for
information about automatic discovery.
If you ran the First Time Wizard, discovery might be completed.
IMPORTANT: If you have storage systems on your network, you must add each SMI CIMOM
IP address to a discovery task. If an SMI CIMOM IP address is not included in a discovery
task, the associated storage system is not discovered.
5. Add new users
You can add any user with a valid network login to HP SIM.
If you ran the First Time Wizard, new users might already be added.
6. Configure e-mail settings
you can configure e-mail settings so that users receive e-mail notification of certain events.
See Configuring e-mail settings for information about e-mail settings.
7. Set up automatic event handling
Automatic event handling enables you to define an action that HP SIM performs when an
event is received. You can set up automatic event handling to use the e-mail and paging
settings that you specified in the previous sections. See Creating an automatic event handling
task for more information.
Setting up managed systems
Setting up managed systems involves installing the required software and configuring the supported
protocols to communicate with the HP SIM software.
48 Initial setup