HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide
Related procedure
▲ Managing hosts files
Related topic
▲ Discovery and identification
IP ranges
You can specifically include or exclude IP addresses individually for
discovery
or as part of a range. Because
the IP address range entries also affect
cluster
discovery, IP ranges must include the addresses of the cluster
and its nodes. Enter one
system
or range per line. When entering IP address ranges, use the guidelines in
the following table:
Range to enterIP range
172.25.76.1-172.25.76.254Your local subnet IP ranges from 1 to 254, the default Ping
inclusion ranges
172.25.76.114-172.25.76.114 or 172.25.76.114A single system as a range in the Ping inclusion ranges or
Exclusion ranges fields
172.25.76.38-172.25.76.48A group of systems within a subnet in the Ping inclusion ranges
or Exclusion ranges fields
@DiscoveryTemplate_filenameSystems included in a discovery template file
$filenameSystems included in a hosts file
172.25.76.255:NOBROADCASTNo broadcast node in this subnet
172.25.76.0-172.25.76.255:255.255.255.0 or
172.25.76.114:255.255.255.0
Broadcast node determined by the subnet mask
Discovery assumes you do not want to ping the subnet network ID (typically the zero node), or the subnet
broadcast address (typically node 255), because these settings would unnecessarily use network resources.
If the system 255 is not a broadcast address on your network, you can indicate this in the Ping inclusion
ranges section as shown in the preceding table or exclude the specific system in the Exclusion ranges
section. HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) uses the subnet mask to determine the broadcast system. If
you do not specify a mask, HP SIM uses the default mask for the class of network. If your subnet mask is not
the default for the class, the broadcast system can be included, generating much more network traffic than
necessary.
Related procedure
▲ Configuring automatic discovery
Related topic
▲ Discovery and identification
Identification
The
Identification
process follows automatic or manual system
discovery
and identifies the following information
about the discovered system:
• Management protocol the system uses (for example,
Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP),
Desktop Management Interface
(DMI),
Web-Based Enterprise Management
(WBEM), HTTP, Secure
Shell (SSH), or WS-Management).
NOTE: OpenWBEM is not supported.
NOTE: By default, HP SIM supports WS-Management identification on the standard SSL port 443.
The addition of WS-Management support does not affect existing identification or discovery of Integrated
Lights Out (iLO) using other protocols such as
Web-Based Enterprise Management
or SNMP. WSMAN:1.0
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