HP Storage Essentials V5.00.01 installation guide (T4283-96011, January 2006)

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This section describes the following:
• ”About Entering Credentials for Elements in HP SIM” on page 36
• ”Setting Default User Names and Passwords” on page 36
• ”Adding an IP Range for Scanning” on page 37
• ”Adding a Single IP Address or DNS Name for Discovery” on page 38
• ”Modifying a Single IP Address Entry for Discovery” on page 40
• ”Removing Elements from the Addresses to Discover List” on page 41
About Entering Credentials for Elements in HP SIM
For elements you want to discover and manage in HP SIM, you must enter each element’s
credentials as WBEM settings regardless of the protocol used to discover the element. You can set
global or system-specific WBEM settings in HP SIM.
• For system-specific WBEM settings - click Options > Protocol Settings > System
Protocol Settings.
• For global WBEM settings - click Options > Protocol Settings > Global Protocol
Settings.
See the HP SIM documentation for more details.
Setting Default User Names and Passwords
Both types of discovery let you set default user name and passwords.
Discovery from HP SIM
Use the Global Settings (Options > Protocol Settings > Global Settings) feature to set your
default user name and passwords. Users can provide user name and passwords for multiple types of
settings, such as for WBEM and SNMP.
IMPORTANT: Provide the SNMP credentials in the WBEM settings section on the System Protocol
Settings page (Options > Protocol Settings > System Protocol Settings). Only the WBEM
default credentials are passed from HP SIM to HP SE. Any default credential information you set up
in regards to SNMP is not passed from HP SIM to HP SE.
NOTE: Refer to the documentation that ships with HP SIM for more information.
Discovery from HP SE
You can specify up to three default user names and passwords. If several of the elements in the same
domain use the same user name and password, assign the user name and password as the default.
The management server uses the default user names and passwords if a user name and password
are not assigned to an element in the Setup screen.
For example, if you have several hosts using the same user name and password, you could enter the
default user name and password. If one of the hosts is connected to a storage system with another