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

Related topics

• Discovery and identification

• IP ranges

• Discovery filters

• System types

• Global protocols

Discovery filters

are a mechanism to prevent or enable certain

system types

from ever being added to the

database

through

automatic discovery

. When you want to discover systems of certain types, using filters is

much easier than specifying the IP addresses of each individual system. Discovery filters do not apply to

manually added systems.

You can access discovery filters in three ways:

• Select Options→Discovery to access the Discovery page. From the Automatic tab, click Configure

general settings, and select Enable discovery filters.

• From the Home page, in the Manage section, click discovery. The Discovery page appears. From

the Automatic tab, click Configure general settings, and select Enable discovery filters.

• From the introductory page, in the Do this now to complete the installation section, click Automatic.

The Discovery page appears. From the Automatic tab, click Configure general settings, and select

Enable discovery filters.

To disable filters, clear the Enable discovery filters checkbox. To enable filters, select the Enable disco very

filters checkbox and select the system types that you want to discover.

To access and modify discovery filters, you must have

full configuration rights

. If discovery filters are enabled,

only systems of the selected types are added to the database through automatic discovery. Because all

tasks

operate on systems that exist in the database, tasks do not run on any system until the filter has been met

and that system has been added to the database. The filters do not affect any systems already discovered,

even if they change to a type that no longer matches the current filter. If discovery filters are disabled,

automatic discovery discovers systems according to the General Settings section on the Discovery page,

Automatic tab. See “Configuring automatic discovery general settings” for more information on configuring

discovery filters.

If you do not discover the HP systems that you expect to find, ensure the

HP Insight Management Agent

s are

installed and running correctly on the target systems. In addition, verify that the SNMP Community Strings

settings and WBEM user name and passwords in HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) and on the agents

for systems that are not discovered are configured correctly. See “Setting global protocols” for more

information.

Related procedure

▲ Configuring automatic discovery general settings