HP SIM V5.1 User Guide (356920-009, January 2007)

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• Operating system name, type, and version

• Associations, such as

iLO in server

NOTE: During identification, remote

enclosures

have a generic name (format: Encl_SerialNumber) assigned

to them until one server from every enclosure is discovered and identified. Then, the enclosures contain the

name of the enclosure assigned to the enclosure.

For newly found

automatically discovered

systems, before the system is added to the

database

, any

discovery

filters

that are configured are applied. If a system does not match the discovery filter, it is not added to the

database, and no additional tasks or requests are made to that system. After the system passes the filter, it

is added to the database. At this time, the system is available to any polling tasks, lists, or other operations.

NOTE: Discovery filters do not apply to manually discovered systems.

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) performs initial hardware and software status polling and initial data

collection on newly added systems. See “Hardware status polling”, “Software status polling”, and “Data

collection” for more information on each task. The information about the systems is stored in the database.

The time to complete the discovery and identification cycle varies with the network size and resources. All

necessary tasks are predefined in HP SIM. Predefined tasks cannot be removed from the system, but they

can be disabled if needed. You can also create a new identification task and schedule it to run when you

want to update identification information from systems.

By default, HP SIM runs

System Identification

once per day and when new systems are discovered. Most

users do not need to schedule identification tasks to run more than once per day.

Initial identification

After a system has been newly discovered or rediscovered, HP SIM attempts to identify it. The discovery task

is not 100% complete until all the systems discovered or rediscovered have been identified.

NOTE: If upgrading from Insight Manager 7 to HP SIM, you must run identification for all network devices,

racks, and enclosures to be displayed on the Status Overview page.

Identifying systems

To identify systems in between discoveries, select Options→Identify Systems. The Identify Systems page

appears. From this page, select target systems to add. See “Creating a task” for more information on selecting

targets.

Related procedure

▲ Adding a system manually