HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Command Line Interface reference guide

• Asset Number . The asset number of the system.
• OS Description . The description of the system's OS.
• Contact . The person to contact if system maintenance is needed.
• Location . The physical location of the system.
• AgentUUID . The unique identifier value from the SNMP agent installed on the system. On Proliant
servers, this is the cpqHoGUID MIB value from the Proliant Insight Agent. For certain switches, this value
is the same as the switch serial number from the SNMP agent.
• UniqueIdentifier . The unique identifier value of the system from the WBEM provider. For standalone
servers, this value is the unique identifier property from the ComputerSystem provider as defined as the
unique identifier of the machine. For partition systems, this value is constructed from both the unique
identifier of the machine plus the partition id from the npartition provider. For HP Integrity Virtual
Machines, the value is constructed from the unique identifier of the virtual partition server (vParMonitor)
plus the virtual partition name.
System attributes that can be locked
The following is the complete list of system attributes that can be modified and locked with the mxnode -m
-f filename command. Locking an attribute prevents that attribute from being overwritten by the
Discovery and Identification processes.
These attributes can be modified in the Edit System Properties page of the HP SIM GUI. However, there
are some differences in the wording between the attribute name as required in the XML file, and the attribute
label displayed in the GUI. The following list can be used as a cross reference:
GUI attribute labelXML attribute name
Preferred display namePreferredNodeName
System typeDeviceType
System subtypeDeviceSubType
Product modelModel
Hardware descriptionSysDescription
Serial numberSerialNumber
Asset numberAssetNumber
Operating System descriptionOSDescription
Operating System for tool filteringOSName
Operating System versionOSRevision
ContactContact
LocationLocation
UUID:AgentUUID
N/AUniqueIdentifier
System attributes are categorized into two groups, hardware and software. When specifying an attribute
in an mxnode XML input file, the correct attribute modifier must be used. The following examples show the
two attribute modifiers:
• The Device Type attribute is a hardware attribute and is specified in the XML file by using the
hw-attribute modifier: <hw-attribute name="DeviceType">Device Type
here</hw-attribute>.
• The OS Name is a software attribute and is specified in the XML file by using the sw-attribute
modifier: <sw-attribute name="OSName">Your OS name here</sw-attribute>.
Only the following system attributes can be locked:
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