HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Command Line Interface Guide

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.
Modifying systems
mxnode -m [-p] -f filename [-w] [-v]
• The -m -f option enables you to modify the attributes of an existing system in the database.
• This option requires the system name rather than the hostname or IP address (mxnode can
look up the system name if the hostname or IP address is provided in XML input).
• The system attributes to be modified for a particular system must reside within a specified
mxnode XML file.
NOTE: See mxnode(4) for additional information about using XML input files with mxnode.
Predefined system attributes/properties
The following is the complete list of system attributes that are predefined and recognized by HP
SIM. Invoking mxnode with -ld or -lf on an existing system displays the current values for some
or all of the attributes in the following list:
• System name . The system name is, by default, the same as the hostname, if a hostname
exists. If the hostname does not exist, the system name defaults to the IP address. The system
name can be anything as long as it is unique among all the systems in the database, and it
can be changed.
• Host name . The hostname is available from gethostbyname(1). It can have embedded
spaces, and its maximum length is 16 characters. Hostnames are not case sensitive and are
represented internally as fully-qualified names.
• IP address . The IP address corresponding to the hostname.
• OS name . The name of the operating system on the managed system.
• OS revision . The revision level of the operating system.
• OS revision text . The operating system revision with vendor-specific descriptive
information.
• OS vendor . The operating system vendor.
• Protocols . The management protocols supported by the managed system, with the revision
level of each protocol.
• GUID . A unique identifier assigned to a system in the database
• Hardware device ID . A unique identifier assigned to the hardware-specific portion of a
system in the database.
• Device type . The major type of the device.
• Device subtype . The subtype of the device within the major type.
• Model . The device model.
• Added By . The login of the user who added the system.
• Added Date . The date and time the system was added.
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