HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 Command Line Interface Guide

# mxtask –cf autodisco.xml
If you enabled periodic execution in the <scheduleinfo> field, the task automatically runs at the
time and frequency you entered. If you did not enable periodic execution, you must manually
execute the task by entering the following command:
# mxtask –e TaskName
Where TaskName is the name of the task entered in the <task name> field of the XML file. The
mxtask command has a built-in help option that describes the command, parameters, and usage
examples. To access help for this command, enter, mxtask –h.
Running reports
The mxreport command enables an Systems Insight Manager user with sufficient privilege to run
reports, and to add, delete, and list reports and report categories in Systems Insight Manager. A
complete description of the mxreport command is found in the mxreport man page. A complete
description of the XML format used by mxreport is found in the mxreport(4) man page.
To create a report in Systems Insight Manager, you must first create an XML file describing the
report, including report name, collection to run the report against, and reporting fields. You can
define multiple reports in the XML file. The following is an example of the XML file to create this
report:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<reportList>
<report reportName="Inventory 7–Servers" displayFlag="0" creatorId="1"
editFlag="1">
<group groupLocale="en_US" parent="System reports" child=""/>
<displayName displayLocale="en_US">Inventory 7–Servers</displayName>
<query queryType="0" queryLocale="en_US">All Servers</query>
<item viewColName="DeviceName" viewName="R_Inventory"/>
<item viewColName="ProductType" viewName="R_Inventory"/>
<item viewColName="ProductName" viewName="R_Inventory"/>
<item viewColName="SerialNumber" viewName="R_Inventory"/>
<item viewColName="AssetTag" viewName="R_Inventory"/>
<item viewColName="MemorySize" viewName="R_Inventory"/>
<item viewColName="OSName" viewName="R_Inventory"/>
<item viewColName="OSVendor" viewName="R_Inventory"/>
<item viewColName="Location" viewName="R_Inventory"/>
<item viewColName="DeviceOwner" viewName="R_Inventory"/>
<viewOption>0</viewOption>
<privilege>0</privilege>
</report>
</reportList>
In this example, the report is called Inventory 7–Servers, and runs against the All Servers collection.
If you save this file using the name inv7server.xml, the command to add this report to Systems
Insight Manager is:
# mxreport –a –f <path>inv7server.xml
Where <path> is the fully qualified path to the inv7server.xml file.
If you define a report in the XML file using the name of an existing report, the duplicate report is
not processed. The mxreport command does not support a modify option. Therefore, to modify
a report, you must delete the existing report, and then create the modified report. To delete an
existing report:
# mxreport –d report-name
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