HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

3. In the Name field, enter a name for the task. This field is required.

4. In the Schedule section, select Automatically execute discovery every, and then enter how often

the task should run. The default frequency, is once per day. If you clear the Automatically execute

discovery every option, the task is disabled after it is created.

5. In the Ping inclusion ranges, system (hosts) names, templates, and/or hosts files field, specify

the IP addresses to include for pinging. If you want to use this task to discover SMI-S

storage systems

include the IP address of each

SMI CIMOM

. You can also enter Simple or Fully Qualified Domain

Names (FQDN) host names. However, you cannot enter a range of host names. See “IP ranges” for

more information about entering IP ranges. To use an existing hosts file, enter the hosts file name in the

following format: $HostsFileName .

If a hosts file is used, only the systems that are accessible and match the discovery filter criteria are

added to the database.

6. To save the task, click OK, or to close the New Discovery section and not save any settings, click

Cancel.

Note: If you have selected a large number of systems, the following message appears, stating The

automatic discovery task is configured with a large number of addresses:

[NUM]. Click OK to continue, or click Cancel to change the IP address range.

Note: The OKbutton is disabled until you enter text in the Ping inclusion ranges, system (hosts)

names, templates, and/or hosts files box.

Creating an automatic discovery task using the command line interface

Users with

administrative rights

can use the mxtask command to create an automatic discovery task from

the command line interface (CLI).

See “Using command line interface commands” for information about accessing the manpage.

Related procedures

• Configuring automatic discovery general settings

• Editing a discovery task

• Disabling or enabling a discovery task

• Deleting a discovery task

• Running a discovery task