HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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Discovery of hosts consists of these steps:
• ”Step A — Set Up Discovery for Hosts” on page 85.
• ”Step B — Discovery Data Collection” on page 87
Step A — Set Up Discovery for Hosts
HP recommends a phased discovery process. You can discover your elements in phases by creating
separate tasks for groups of elements. Before you discover applications, backup servers, and hosts,
you should have discovered your switches, storage systems, NAS devices and tape libraries. See
”Discovering Switches, Storage Systems, NAS Devices, and Tape Libraries” on page 19 for more
information.
Use the following procedure for each discovery task:
1. Decide if you will use global or system credentials for the discovery task. See ”Using
Credentials” on page 22 for tips on how to choose the credential type that best suits your
environment.
2. If you decide to use global credentials, enter them now:
a. Select Options > Protocol Settings > Global Protocol Settings.
b. Enter the global user name, and password in the Default WBEM settings section.
c. Click OK.
IMPORTANT: For best results, enter only global credentials that apply to the set of hosts for
the current discovery task. When this discovery task is complete, you can delete the element
specific global credentials and enter global credentials for the next set of hosts you want to
discover.
3. Select Options > Discovery.
4. Click New on the HP SIM Discovery page Automatic tab.
5. Name the task based on the hosts being discovered. For example, Windows hosts.
6. Clear the Automatically execute discovery every check box.
7. Enter the IP addresses of the hosts to discover in the Ping inclusion ranges, system (hosts) names,
templates, and/or hosts files box.