HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

Related topics
• IP ranges
• Discovery and identification
• Managing discovery templates
Editing a discovery template
You can edit an existing discovery template file. All fields are optional except for the Discovery template
name field. Edit only the fields that you want to change.
To edit a 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. Select a discovery template file to edit, and then click Edit. The Edit Template section appears.
4. The Discovery template name field cannot be editied. You must use the existing template name.
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.
Related procedures
• Creating a new discovery template file
• Deleting a discovery template
Related topics
• Discovery and identification
• Managing discovery templates
Deleting a discovery template
You can delete existing discovery template files. If you delete a discovery template file, the file is permanently
deleted and cannot be retrieved again. Ensure that you only delete discovery template files if you no longer
need them or you are creating a new discovery template file.
NOTE: Ensure that the discovery template is not currently in use. A template is not in use when the following
conditions are met:
• There are no references to the template in the Ping exclusion ranges, templates and/or hosts files
field in the General Settings for All Discoveries section.
• There are no references to the template in the Ping inclusion ranges, system (hosts) names,
templates, and/or hosts files field of all existing discovery tasks.
To delete a 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. Select a discovery template file to delete.
4. Click Delete. A confirmation box appears.
5. To delete the discovery template file, click OK to cancel the deletion process, click Cancel.
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