HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 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,
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