User's Guide

The OneCommand Manager User Manual Page 37
discovered during the search, the host will be added to the discovery-tree only once. If the same host
name appears for more than one host, the adapters of all these hosts will be displayed by the
OneCommand Manager application as a single host entry.
Figure 15: Discovery Settings dialog box
To configure discovery settings:
1. From the Discovery menu, select Modify Settings. The Discovery Settings dialog box appears.
2. Define the discovery properties you want.
3. The CIM credentials group can be used to set the default CIM credentials which will be used by
default to connect to all the ESX hosts that are managed through the CIM interface.
• Protocol: The http or https protocol can be used to connect to the ESX hosts. The default
port numbers used for http and https are 5988 and 5989 respectively. The port number will
change automatically according to the protocol selected. The user can also manually
change the port number. Since, by default, the HTTP is disabled on sfcb in ESXi host, user
should use HTTPS to communicate to the ESXi host.
• User name: The user name field contains the username with which to connect to the ESX
hosts. By default this will be ‘root’
• Password: This password field will contain the password of the user name which will be
used to connect to the ESX host.
• Namespace: Namespace is the namespace of the emulex provider.
For ESX/ESXi 40 and 41, the namespace is ‘root/emulex’.
For ESX 3.5, the namespace is ‘elxhbacmpi/cimv2 ’.