HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

• Specify the Web-Based Enterprise Management Settings for the system on the System Protocol
Settings page. You can override the default user name and passwords by selecting use values
specified below and entering appropriate user names and passwords.
• Specify the SNMP settings for this system to be unique or match the global discovery settings. The
current system default settings are displayed. If you override the default and specify a different value,
that community string must be supported on the system. If it is not and one of the defaults is supported,
HP SIM reverts back to the default value. When manually adding a single system, you can modify the
following settings:
The amount of time HP SIM waits for an SNMP response when it
sends a request to the system. The default timeout value appears.
If a response is not received within time interval, HP SIM might
determine that the system does not support SNMP. Decreasing
this value can cause increased network traffic because the rate of
retry attempts is increased. Use caution when changing this value.
A value of three seconds usually works for a LAN. However, if
systems are connected through a WAN, try a higher value, for
example, 10 seconds.
timeout
The number of additional times after the first attempt is made to
communicate with a system before the attempts stop.
retries
A community string sets up authentication that enables or prohibits
communication between the managed system and the CMS. The
CMS community string of the must match the community string of
the managed system. Use the read-only community string to read
variables. Use the write community string to modify variables.
Although only one community is valid for a communication attempt,
a system can belong to multiple communities. However, HP SIM
uses only one community string when communicating with a
system.
community strings
NOTE: If an IP address is used to manually add a single system, it must be properly resolved to a system
name for the name to be displayed in the GUI.
See “Adding a system manually” for the steps to add a single system to the database.
Related procedures
• Configuring automatic discovery
• Configuring automatic discovery general settings
• Creating a new discovery task
• Editing a discovery task
• Disabling or enabling a discovery task
• Deleting a discovery task
• Running a discovery task
• Creating a new discovery template file
• Editing a discovery template
• Deleting a discovery template
• Adding a system manually
• Creating a new hosts file
• Editing a hosts file
• Deleting a hosts file
• Adding systems in a hosts file to the HP SIM database
Related topics
• Managing hosts files
• Managing discovery templates
• Identification
96 Discovery and identification