HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

CMS locale...............................................................................................................................84
Target locale..............................................................................................................................84
Using command line interface commands................................................................................................85
manpages......................................................................................................................................86
Commands.....................................................................................................................................86
Entering commands..........................................................................................................................88
Permissions................................................................................................................................88
Quotation marks.........................................................................................................................89
Resource library....................................................................................................................................89
5 Discovery and identification.......................................................................93
Automatic discovery..............................................................................................................................93
Internet Protocol...............................................................................................................................93
Event-based automatic discovery........................................................................................................93
Discovery templates.........................................................................................................................94
First discovery.......................................................................................................................................94
Subsequent discoveries..........................................................................................................................94
Manual discovery.................................................................................................................................95
Hosts files.......................................................................................................................................95
Options for adding a single system....................................................................................................95
Configuring automatic discovery.............................................................................................................97
Creating a new discovery task...........................................................................................................98
Creating an automatic discovery task using the command line interface.............................................99
Editing a discovery task..................................................................................................................100
Disabling or enabling a discovery task.............................................................................................100
Deleting a discovery task................................................................................................................101
Running a discovery task................................................................................................................101
System types.................................................................................................................................102
System discovered by HP SIM..........................................................................................................104
HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager systems discovered by HP SIM................................................104
Storage devices discovered by HP SIM........................................................................................104
StorageWorks XP.................................................................................................................104
StorageWorks VA................................................................................................................105
StorageWorks EVA..............................................................................................................105
StorageWorks MSA.............................................................................................................105
StorageWorks Tape Library...................................................................................................105
EMC Array.........................................................................................................................105
HDS Array..........................................................................................................................105
StorageWorks EVA..............................................................................................................105
Network Appliance NAS......................................................................................................105
StorageWorks NAS.............................................................................................................106
Fibre Channel.....................................................................................................................106
Obtaining, installing, and configuring providers and agents...........................................................106
Configuring management protocols.............................................................................................108
Sending test traps and indications...............................................................................................108
Configuring automatic discovery general settings....................................................................................109
Discovery filters.............................................................................................................................111
Managing discovery templates.............................................................................................................111
Creating a new discovery template file.............................................................................................112
Template file format..................................................................................................................112
Editing a discovery template............................................................................................................113
Deleting a discovery template..........................................................................................................113
Adding a system manually...................................................................................................................114
Command line interface.................................................................................................................116
Managing hosts files...........................................................................................................................116
Creating a new hosts file................................................................................................................117
Hosts file format.......................................................................................................................118
Editing a hosts file..........................................................................................................................118
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