HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide First Edition (T4283-96026, August 2006)

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1. Click Tools > Storage Essentials > Home on the HP SIM home page menu. The HP SE home
page opens in a separate web browser window. Click Discovery > Setup in the upper-right
pane of the HP SE home page.
2. Select Step 1 at the top of the page.
3. Click the IP Addresses tab.
4. Click the Add Address button.
5. In the IP Address/DNS Name field, type the IP address or DNS name of the HP NAS device
you want to discover.
6. Enter the User Name of the HP NAS device. You must provide a privileged login.
7. Enter the Password used to access the HP NAS device.
8. Retype the password in the Verify Password field.
9. In the Comment field (optional), type a comment for additional information. The information
typed into this field is displayed under the Comment column in the Addresses to Discover list
(Tools > Storage Essentials > Home > Discovery > Setup).
10.Do not select the Do Not Authenticate option.
11.Click OK.
12.To start discovering elements on the network, click the Start Discovery button on the IP
Addresses tab.
Discovering HP NAS Devices on Linux
In order to discover an HP NAS device on Windows, you must first install a CIM extension on the
device. Refer to the Installation Guide for information on how to install the CIM extension.
In order to enable NAS support, you must modify a property file on the NAS device. To enable
NAS support:
1. Connect to the NAS device on which you have installed the CIM extension.
2. Browse to the installation directory and open the CIMextension/conf directory.
3. Copy the nas.properties-sample file and paste a copy into the same directory.
4. Rename the copied file to nas.properties.
5. Open the file and locate the following line:
# Set to true to enable NAS data collection; “false” is the default
nas=false
6. Change the value to true to enable NAS support, as shown in the following example:
nas=true
7. Save your changes and close the file.
8. Restart the CIM extension. Refer to the Installation Guide for information about starting CIM
extensions.
Discovery from HP SIM
To discover an HP NAS device on Linux, provide the following information in HP Insight Manager: