HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

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See http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/misc/hpsim-helpfiles/win32sim.pdf for more information

about exporting the Insight Manager (WIN32) .dat file.

Related procedure

▲ Creating a new hosts file

Batch-adding systems using the CLI

You can batch-add systems by host name using the command line interface (CLI). To do this, you must first

create an .xml file, and then run the mxnode command from the command line.

1. Create and save an .xml file. For example,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>

<node-list>

</node-list>

2. From the command line, run:

mxnode -a -f mysystems.xml

Where

mysystems.xml

is the name of the file you created.

Related procedure

▲ Creating a new hosts file

Hosts file extensions

Hosts files

typically contain IP addresses, system names, system name aliases, and user comments. The hosts

file that you create can contain additional information about

systems

. The information appears as one or

more comments that precede the hosts file entry for the system. Unless other values are specified, the default

values are used. The following table lists default values are provided for the following parameters:

KeywordParameter

TYPEsystem type

SNMP_TIMSNMP timeouts

SNMP_RETSNMP retries

SNMP_MONSNMP read community

SNMP_CONSNMP write community

You can modify the hosts file to substitute a value for the defaults for one entry or change the default for all

subsequent entries. To change values for a single-system entry in a hosts file, add a statement to the hosts

file as a comment on the line before the host entry, as shown in the following example. The statement applies

only to the system it precedes. In the following example, the default TYPE is changed to "server" for the

system EngProliant.

Hosts file entriesKeyword statement

#$IMXE: TYPE=server#$IMXE:< Keyword=value >

16.26.176.92 EngProliant.compaq.com EngProliant #user

comments

For example: #$IMXE: TYPE=server

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