HP Insight Control for Linux 6.2 User Guide

7 Discovering systems, switches, and enclosures
This chapter addresses the following tasks, which you must complete in the following order
when you are configuring and setting up Insight Control for Linux:
1. “Discovering systems” (page 75)
2. “Assigning Insight Control for Linux licenses to discovered systems” (page 78)
3. “Preparing and discovering switches and enclosures” (page 79)
4. “Changing the boot method” (page 80)
7.1 Discovering systems
A server must first be discovered before HP SIM or Insight Control for Linux can manage and
monitor it. Discovery is the process of finding servers in the management domain so that they
can be managed from the CMS.
NOTE:
To discover or identify a server that becomes a managed system, HP SIM requires that the SNMP
read community string must be set to public in the global credentials for that server. The
value public is the default value. Use the Options→Security→Credentials→Global
Credentials menu item to verify or set this parameter.
There may be additional read community string settings in addition to public, but public
must be specified. If you need to add another read community string, select Add to add another
one, but do not remove public.
The system discovery process depends on whether the server is installed with a supported Linux
OS (a running system) or not.
Use the appropriate procedure to discover systems:
• “Discovering bare-metal servers using PXE” (page 75)
• “Discovering bare-metal servers using virtual media” (page 76)
• “Discovering running systems ” (page 78)
7.1.1 Discovering bare-metal servers using PXE
This section describes the discovery process for bare-metal servers.
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