HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

8. Click Edit Modem Settings to edit the modem settings, or click Edit email Settings to edit the SMTP
settings. See HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/
servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information.
Note: The event and system search criteria appear at the bottom of the page. This information can be
extremely complex and long. Therefore, you might need to scroll down to view all of the criteria.
9. Click Finish to create the new task.
Configuring and executing discovery
Discovery is the process that HP SIM uses to find and identify the systems on your network and populate the
database with that information. A system must first be discovered to collect data and track system status.
There are two basic ways to discover new systems:
• Automatic discovery The process that HP SIM uses to find and identify the systems on your network
to populate the database with that information. A system must first be discovered to collect data and
track system status.
• Manual discovery The process that enables you to bypass a full automatic discovery and add single
and multiple systems to the database, create or import the HP SIM database Hosts file, and create or
import a generic Hosts file.
Configuring and executing automatic discovery
1. Select Options→Discovery. The Discovery page appears with the Automatic tab selected.
2. In the For all automatic discoveries section, select Configure general settings. The General
Settings for All Discoveries section appears.
3. Select from the following options:
• Automatically discover a system when an event is received from it. This option enables
systems to be discovered when a trap or some other supported event is received by HP Systems
Insight Manager (HP SIM). It uses the discovery filters and IP address exclusion ranges for additional
filtering of these events. This option is not selected by default.
• Automatically discover a server blade when its Integrated Lights Out management
processor is identified. This option adds servers indirectly discovered through the server's
management processor, which are discovered when the server's iLO is discovered. The discovered
servers are identified as Disabled on the system table view page. The only information displayed
is the system serial number and the association to iLO and the enclosure. If the iLO is in a c-Class
enclosure, the option ,Discover systems in an enclosure when Onboard Administrator is
discovered should also be enabled.
• Select Discover systems in an enclosure when Onboard Administrator is discovered. This
option adds systems identified by the Onboard Administrator even if the systems are not in the
configured discovery range. This option is selected by default.
• Select Automatically discover VM guest(s) when the host is identified. This option adds all
HP Integrity Virtual Machine (HPVM) guest systems to the HP SIM database when the HPVM host
system is discovered and identified. This option is selected by default.
Note: For automatic identification of virtual machine guests running on a virtual machine host, the
IP address of the guest is required. To acquire the IP address from Web-Based Enterprise
Management (WBEM) Providers, VMWare tools must be installed on the virtual machine guests.
• Automatically discover other virtual par titions within the same vPar Monitor when one of
the virtual partitions is identified. This option is selected by default.
• Automatically discover all nPars within the same complex when one of the nPars is
identified. This option is selected by default.
4. In the Ping exclusion ranges, templates and/or hosts files field, specify the IP addresses, templates,
or hosts files containing IP addresses to exclude from the automatic discovery process. You can also
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