README - HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3
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If the number of servers in the enclosure exceeds the number of available slots, then not all the servers will
be shown in HP SIM. This can happen when the enclosure contains at least one double dense blade (BL2x220c
or ProLiant xw2x220c Blade Workstation) and all the slots in the enclosure are populated with the servers.
A double dense blade contains 2 servers per blade: and A and a B server. Some of the cases where the
number of servers exceeds the available slots in the enclosure are:
C7000 containing 15 BL servers (single sided) and 1 Double dense server = 17 servers
C7000 containing 10 Double dense servers = 20 servers
Therefore with number of servers exceeding the number of available slots, the B side of each blade beyond
the 8th double dense blade or beyond the 16th blade will be missing from HP SIM. The servers can still be
discovered, but they will not be associated with the enclosure or will not be shown in Enclosure picture view
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If an HP ProLiant BL30p server blade is physically removed from its enclosure and another server blade is
inserted in its place, manually delete the BL30p server from HP SIM. Otherwise, the Rack or Enclosure picture
view might be displayed incorrectly.
The picture view of a rack that is empty and no longer contains any enclosures might display as a gray box
with no information. You can safely delete the rack system in this case.
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If the table view of a rack appears empty but the picture view has a rack diagram, re-run discovery. This
error can happen if you unplug the power supply and then plug it back in.
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If HP ProLiant BL e-Class blade servers or the HP bc1000 blade PC picture view is empty but the table view
displays all blades correctly, run identification on the Integrated Administrator management processor.
This happens when the Integrated Administrator is discovered before blades are discovered.
1. Select Options→Discovery→Identify Systems.
2. Select the ProLiant BL e-Class Integrated Administrator.
3. Click Run Now.
Credentials
When a discovery credential is used to successfully communicate with a system, a credential reference is
created for that system. If the credential is later changed on that same discovery task, the credential that is
used on all systems referencing it changes. This enables credentials to be changed in one place (usually
passwords for an account) and immediately be available for use in HP SIM. The same is true for global
credentials.
Because of this, if a global or discovery credential is deleted, you are asked if all references to that credential
should be removed or if copies should be made as system credentials for each system that is referencing the
current credential.
However, when a credential is overwritten, instead of deleted and then re-added, the credential is changed
and each system referencing it uses the new username/password values.
If the intent is not to change what is currently in use, you must add a new credential. For discovery tasks, a
new discovery task must be created with its own credentials, instead of editing an existing discovery task,
if the systems require different credentials than contained in the existing discovery task.
Custom Tool
DOS environment variables are supported in the custom command parameters and work as parameters on
the New Custom Tool page or the Manage Custom Tools page. However, they must be surrounded by
double % signs. For example, to pass the NOTICELABEL environment variable as a parameter, it should
be entered as %%NOTICELABLE%% on the parameter line. The environment variables can also be accessed
from a batch file or script file. To use them in a batch file or a script file, only a single % sign should precede
and succeed the environment variable name. See the
HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference
Guide
under Tools that extend Management - Custom Tools - Custom Tools Reference -
Parameterized Strings Substitution Table for a list of other substitutable variables.
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