HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 7.3 User Guide

To manually register the virtual machine hosts in a Windows environment:
1. From an account with administrative privileges, sign in to HP SIM on the Systems Insight
Manager CMS.
2. Access the installation bin directory from the default path:C:\Program Files\HP\Insight
Control virtual machine management\bin
3. From the CMS, access the installation bin directory from the following path:C:\Program
Files\HP\Insight Control virtual machine management\bin
4. Register the virtual machine host:
vmcli -registerAgent <URI agent>
5. On the node representing the virtual machine host, run the Identify Systems feature of HP SIM.
Unregistering virtual machine hosts
CAUTION: Unregistering a virtual machine host permanently removes all information from the
VMM database, including backup information.
To unregister the virtual machine host:
1. On the HP Systems Insight Manager All Systems page, select the virtual machine host.
2. Click Configure →Virtual Machine →Unregister Virtual Machine Host.
3. Verify that the correct target host appears in the list. To add targets click Add Targets, or to
remove targets, click Remove Targets, and then clickNext.
4. To unregister the host immediately, click Run Now. A confirmation window appears.
5. Type YES in the confirmation window and click OK.
Manually unregistering virtual machine hosts
Windows CMS
To manually unregister the virtual machine host in a Windows environment:
1. From an account with administrative privileges, sign in to HP SIM on the Systems Insight
Manager CMS.
2. Access the installationbin directory using the default path:C:\Program Files\HP\Insight
Control virtual machine management\bin
3. From the CMS, access the installation bin directory from the following path:C:\Program
Files\HP\Insight Control virtual machine management\bin
4. Unregister the virtual machine host:
vmcli -unregisterAgent <URI agent>
5. On the node representing the virtual machine host, run the Identify Systems feature of HP SIM.
NOTE: Do not use theVMCLI command to unregister the host, because the same is automatically
unregistered from VMM when you delete the node corresponding to a VM host from HP SIM.
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