HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Command Line Interface Guide

mxnode -a -m -f filename [-w] [-v]
• When a system is added to the database with the -a option, mxnode stores the system name, the
fully-qualified network hostname (if it exists), and an IP address as system attributes.
• The system is identified , meaning it is examined via the SNMP and WBEM management protocols to
determine the device type, the operating system type and revision, and other information needed to
determine which tools are appropriate for use with the system. The information collected during system
identification is stored in system attributes. Since it can take some time to gather this information, it
might take up to thirty seconds for a system to appear in list results.
• Successful system identification depends on system access credentials which must be set before you
run mxnode. See the mxnodesecurity section or the mxnodesecurity(1M) manpage for information
about system access credentials.
• The -a option requires a hostname or IP address since it affects systems that have not yet been added
to the database.
Removing systems
mxnode -r nodename(s)|hostname(s)|ipaddr(es) [-x force] [-v]
mxnode -r -f filename [-x force] [-v]
• The -r option enables you to remove a system from the database. The system to be removed can be
specified by its system name, hostname, or IP address. Removing a system only removes its context
from the database. The CMS itself and non-empty container systems cannot be removed.
• During the removal process, the system is removed from all system groups and all authorizations (see
mxauth(1M)) for the system are removed.
• It is not an error to remove a system from the database while a task is running on the system. HP SIM
does not terminate the task on the system; task results and status are sent to HP SIM when the task is
complete.
Listing systems
mxnode -ln [ systemname(s) ]
mxnode -ld [ systemname(s) ] []
mxnode -lt [ systemname(s) ]
mxnode -lf [ systemname(s) ] [-b encoding ]
mxnode -lmpo [-b encoding ]
• The -l* forms of this command allow you to list system information.
• Specifying no options with this command provides a list of system names with no other information.
This listing is the same as -ln.
• -ld provides a detailed screen-viewable list of systems.
• -lt provides a tabular listing of systems with detailed information.
• -lmpo lists the names of systems that may have one or more associated management path objects
(MPOs, also known as Management Paths or CIMOMs).
Two types of MPOs may or may not exist on a system. One type of MPO is a Management Agent
(MAO), and defines an actual Agent residing on the system. The other MPO type is a Management
Route (MRO), which specifies the routing information to an associated MAO, which may reside on this
system or another system. One or more MPOs can reside on a system.
• -lf provides an XML list of systems.
Optionally, you can specify the character encoding of the XML file. The value for the character encoding
must match a valid character encoding. If no encoding is specified, the system attempts to write the file
in the encoding currently defined on the system. See http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
for the list of valid character sets.
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