HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with SP1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows

Configuring and executing automatic discovery
1. Select Options→Discovery. The Discovery page appears.
2. In the For all automatic discoveries section, select Configure general settings. The General
Settings for All Discoveries section appears.
3. Select from the following options:
• Automatically discover a system when an event is received from it. This option enables
systems to be discovered when a trap or some other supported event is received by HP SIM. It
uses the discovery filters and IP address exclusion ranges for additional filtering of these events.
This option is not selected by default.
• Automatically discover a server when its Integrated Lights Out management processor
is identified. This option adds servers indirectly discovered through the server's management
processor, which are discovered when the server's iLO is discovered. The discovered servers are
identified as Disabled on the system table view page. The only information displayed is the system
serial number and the association to iLO and the enclosure. If the iLO is in a c-Class enclosure,
the option, Discover systems in an enclosure when Onboard Administrator is discovered
must be enabled.
• Discover systems in an enclosure when Onboard Administrator is discovered. This option
adds systems identified by the Onboard Administrator even if the systems are not in the configured
discovery range. This option is selected by default.
• Automatically discover VM guest(s) when the host is identified. This option adds all VM
guest systems to the HP SIM database when the a VM host (HPVM VMWare ESX or Microsoft
Hyper-V) system is discovered and identified. This option is selected by default.
If this option is not selected when a VMWare ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V host is discovered, then
guests are not discovered automatically. However, if one of its guests is moved to another before
being discovered in HP SIM and if that guest is discovered later, it is associated with the old host.
To avoid this, either the old host or new host must be identified before guest is discovered
Note: For automatic identification of virtual machine guests running on a virtual machine host, the
IP address of the guest is required. To acquire the IP address from WBEM Providers, VMWare
tools must be installed on the virtual machine guests.
• Automatically discover other virtual partitions within the same vPar Monitor when one of
the virtual partitions is identified. This option is selected by default.
• Automatically discover all nPars within the same complex when one of the nPars is
identified. This option is selected by default.
4. In the Ping exclusion ranges, templates and/or hosts files field, specify the IP addresses, templates,
or hosts files containing IP addresses to exclude from the automatic discovery process. You can also
enter Simple or FQDN host names. However, you cannot enter a range of host names. This field applies
to both range-pinging and event-based automatic discovery.
Important: When discovering clusters, the ping inclusion range must include the IP addresses of the
cluster and the cluster members.
5. To select the types of systems HP SIM discovers, select Enable discovery filters.
6. In the section, Discover the following system types, select the type of systems to be discovered.
Important: When discovering clusters, you must include the server system type, so that the cluster members
are not filtered out.
Note: This option is available only when you select Enable discovery filters.
7. In the Limit discovery to systems that meet the following criteria section, select from the following:
• Any system that matches the above filter
• All manageable systems (WBEM, SNMP, DMI, WMI, or HTTP support)
• Manageable systems with HP agents only
Note: The option, Limit discovery to systems which meet the following criteria is available only
when you select Enable discovery filters.
62 Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu