HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with SP1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows

8. To save settings, click OK, or to close the General Settings for All Discoveries section without saving
changes, click Cancel.
If you click OK when discovery filters are enabled but have not selected any system types, the following
error message appears:
You must make at least one system type selection when enabling filters.
9. Select System Automatic Discovery. Click one of the following options to schedule it for ongoing
operations or to make other changes: Edit, Enable, View Task Results, or Run Now. If you would
like to create other discovery tasks, click New.
Configuring a discovery task
To configure and execute a discovery, you must create a Discovery task. HP SIM ships includes one default
discovery task (System Automatic Discovery). However, you can create a new discovery task to discover
specific systems. For example, if you want to discover systems in a specific IP address range. You can set
the task to run at scheduled times using specific ping inclusion ranges, templates, or hosts files.
To create a discovery task:
1. Select Options→Discovery. The Discovery page appears with the Automatic tab selected.
2. To create a new discovery task, click New. The New Discovery section appears.
3. Select from the following:
• Discover a group of systems (Default) Select this option to discover more than one system.
(Required) In the Name field, enter a name for the task.a.
b. In the Schedule section, select Automatically execute discovery every, and then enter
how often the task runs. The default frequency is once per day. If you clear the Automatically
execute discovery every option, the task is disabled after you create it.
c. In the Ping inclusion ranges, system (hosts) names, templates, and/or hosts files field,
specify the IP addresses. If you want to use this task to discover SMI-S storage systems , include
the IP address of each SMI CIMOM . You can also enter Simple or FQDN host names.
However, you cannot enter a range of host names. To use an existing hosts file, enter the
hosts file name in the following format: $HostsFileName .
If a hosts file is used, only systems that are accessible and match the discovery filter criteria
are added to the database.
d. Enter comments in the Comments field. Comments entered here are displayed in the discovery
table on the Discovery page.
• Discover a single system Select this option to discover one system. Single system discovery
address the system to the HP SIM database regardless of network reachability, unless it is not DNS
resolvable.
a. (Required) In the Name field, enter a name for the task.
b. In the Schedule section, select Automatically execute discovery every, and then enter
how often the task runs. The default frequency is once per day. If you clear the Automatically
execute discovery every option, the task is disabled after you create it.
c. Enter the system name or IP address in the Enter the system's name or IP address.
d. Enter comments in the Comments field. Comments entered here are displayed in the discovery
table on the Discovery page.
4. To set system credentials, click Credentials.
5. To create an associated Configure or Repair Agents task, click Configure/Repair.
6. To configure system types, click System Types.
NOTE: System Types is only available when you discover a single system.
7. To save the task, click Save, to run the task immediately, click Run Now, or to close the New Discovery
section and not save any settings, click Cancel.
Note: If you have selected many systems, the following message appears, stating The automatic
discovery task is configured with a large number of addresses: [NUM]. Click
OK to continue, or click Cancel to change the IP address range.
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