HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

Related procedures
• Creating a new discovery template file
• Editing a discovery template
• Deleting a discovery template
Related topic
▲ Discovery and identification
Creating a new discovery template file
You can create new discovery template files instead of entering addresses directly into the Ping inclusion
ranges, system (hosts) names, templates, and/or hosts files or Ping exclusion ranges, templates
and/or hosts files fields.
To create a new discovery template file:
1. Select Options→Discovery. The Discovery page appears with the Automatic tab selected.
2. In the For all automatic discoveries section, select Manage templates. The Manage Templates
section appears.
3. Click New. The Create New Template section appears.
4. In the Discovery template name field, enter a name for the new template. This field is required.
5. To import a file, complete one of the following steps:
• Click Browse to select an existing discovery template file that is present on the local client (the
system from which you are browsing) and click Import
or
• Enter the discovery range information into the Contents area. You can enter Simple or Fully
Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) host names. However, you cannot enter a range of host names.
See “IP ranges” for information about the correct syntax for entering IP ranges.
Note: Because template files cannot be nested, only ranges are allowed.
6. To save the discovery template file, click OK, or to close without saving changes, click Cancel.
After creating a discovery template, you can reference it in automatic discovery by using @template_name
in the Ping inclusion ranges, system (hosts) names, templates, and/or hosts files or Ping exclusion
ranges, templates and/or hosts files fields. See “IP ranges” for more information.
Template file format
#
# use @<file_name> in the automatic discovery IP inclusion range
# to reference this template
#
# Example:
#
# 2.0.0.0 :NOBROADCAST
# 2.0.0.0 - 2.0.2.0
# 3.0.0.0 - 3.0.0.254 : 255.255.255.0
Related procedures
• Editing a discovery template
• Deleting a discovery template
112 Discovery and identification