Getting started with HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 in a smaller Windows environment

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To configure the environment:
1. Select the operating systems for the CMS to manage.
2. Click Next to go to the next First Time Wizard step, or click Previous to return to the
previous step.
Enabling automatic system discovery
Systems Insight Manager uses system automatic discovery to find and identify systems on the
network. The System Automatic Discovery task is the default discovery task and is disabled by
default. You can enable and configure the System Automatic Discovery task while using the First
Time Wizard or by selecting Options->Discovery from the Systems Insight Manager menu.
If the System Automatic Discovery task is enabled, then it runs immediately when the First Time
Wizard is finished to initially populate the Systems Insight Manager database.
You can create additional automatic discovery tasks by selecting Options->Discovery from the
Systems Insight Manager menu and entering the details, and you can also run manual discovery to
discover single systems.
To enable automatic system discovery from the First Time Wizard Discovery page:
1. To configure Systems Insight Manager to run discovery immediately after you finish the
First Time Wizard, select Run discovery.
2. To configure the System Automatic Discovery task to run on a regular schedule, select
Schedule, and then enter the periodic run interval and time of day to run the task.
3. In the Ping inclusion ranges, system (hosts) names, templates, and hosts files field,
specify the IP addresses to include for pinging. If you want to use this task to discover
SMI-S storage systems, then include the IP address of each SMI (Storage Management
Initiative) CIMOM. You can also enter Simple or Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN)
host names. However, you cannot enter a range of host names. To use an existing
host’s file, enter the host’s file name in the following format: $HostsFileName.
4. Choose one of the following:
To discover SMI-S storage systems, add the IP address of each SMI CIMOM to the
System Automatic Discovery task.
Create a separate discovery task for your SMI CIMOMs. For more information, see
the HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide at
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.h
tml.
5. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click Next, or to return to the previous step,
click Previous.
Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign-in credentials
From this page, you can set sign-in and SNMP credentials for the System Automatic Discovery
task. This window is skipped if did not configure discovery in the First Time Wizard Discovery
window.
1. To set the sign-in credentials for the System Automatic Discovery task, enter the user
name and password.
To add additional sign-in credentials, click [Add]. To delete existing sign-in credentials,
click [Delete] beside the credentials that you want to delete.