HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

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• Automatically discover VM guest(s) when the host is identified. This option adds all VM

guest systems to the HP SIM database when the a VM host (HPVM VMWare ESX or Microsoft

Hyper-V) system is discovered and identified. This option is selected by default.

If this option is not selected when a VMWare ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V host is discovered, then

guests are not discovered automatically. However, if one of its guests is moved to another before

being discovered in HP SIM and if that guest is discovered later, it is associated with the old host.

To avoid this, either the old host or new host must be identified before guest is discovered

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 WBEM Providers, VMWare

tools must be installed on the virtual machine guests.

• Automatically discover other virtual partitions 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

enter Simple or FQDN host names. However, you cannot enter a range of host names. This field applies

to both range-pinging and event-based automatic discovery. See “IP ranges” for more information.

Important: When discovering clusters, the ping inclusion range must include the IP addresses of the

cluster and the cluster members.

5. To select the types of systems HP SIM discovers, select Enable discovery filters. See “Discovery filters”

for more information.

6. In the section, Discover the following system types, select the type of systems to be discovered. See

“System types” for more detailed information about the system types listed.

Important: When discovering clusters, you must include the server system type, so that the cluster members

are not filtered out.

Note: This option is available only when you select Enable discovery filters.

7. In the Limit discovery to systems that meet the following criteria section, select from the following:

• Any system that matches the above filter

• All manageable systems (WBEM, SNMP, DMI, WMI, or HTTP support)

• Manageable systems with HP agents only

Note: The option, Limit discovery to systems which meet the following criteria is available only

when you select Enable discovery filters.

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.

The Discovery page General Settings for All Discoveries section is not protected from multiple users

accessing the page at the same time. The last user to save the settings has his or her settings take affect. If

discovery is in progress and the settings are applied by a different user or the same user, any remaining

systems to be processed have the new settings applied.