HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

• View HP Storage Essentials discovery status When you install HP Storage Essentials, its discovery
status appears with a link to the HP Storage Essentials discovery log.
• Configure HP Storage Essentials global application settings When you install HP Storage Essentials,
the Discovery page includes a link to the HP Storage Essentials global application settings configuration
page.
Related procedures
• Global credentials
• Configuring automatic discovery general settings
• Setting global protocols
• Managing hosts files
• Creating a new discovery task
• Editing a discovery task
• Disabling or enabling an existing discovery task
• Deleting a discovery task
• Running a discovery task
• Setting global protocols
Related topics
• Discovery and identification
• IP ranges
Creating a new 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.
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. 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. See “IP ranges” for more information
about entering IP ranges. 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.
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