Getting started with HP SIM 5.3 in a smaller Windows environment (417431-005, January 2008)

HP SIM uses system automatic discovery to find and identify systems on the network. The System
Automatic Discovery task is the default discovery task and is disabled by default. You can enable
and configure the System Automatic Discovery task in the First Time Wizard, or by selecting
Options->Discovery from the HP SIM menu.
If the System Automatic Discovery task is enabled, it runs immediately when the First Time Wizard
is finished to initially populate the HP SIM database.
You can create additional automatic discovery tasks by selecting Options
Discovery from the
HP SIM menu and entering the details, and you can also run manual discovery to discover single
systems.
To enable automatic system discovery from the First Time Wizard Discovery page:
1. To configure HP SIM to run discovery immediately after you finish the First Time Wizard,
select Run discovery once after wizard finishes.
2. To configure the System Automatic Discovery task to run on a regular schedule, select
Schedule and enter the periodic run interval and time of day to run the task.
3. 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. To use an existing hosts file, enter the hosts file name in the following format:
$HostsFileName .
o To discover SMI-S storage systems, you must add the IP address of each SMI CIMOM
to the System Automatic Discovery task.
o Alternatively, you can create a separate discovery task for your SMI CIMOMs. See
the HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide at
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.ht
ml for more information.
4. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click Next, or to return to the previous step,
click Previous.
Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign-in credentials
From this page, you can set sign in and SNMP credentials for the System Automatic Discovery task.
This window is skipped if did not configure discovery in the First Time Wizard Discovery window.
1. To set the sign-in credentials for the System Automatic Discovery task, enter the user name and
password.
To add additional sign-in credentials, click [Add]. To delete existing sign-in credentials, click
[Delete] beside the credentials that you want to delete.
2. To have HP SIM try other credentials if the entered credentials fail, select If these credentials
fail, try other credentials that may apply....
3. Enter read community strings for SNMP credentials for the System Automatic Discovery task.
To add additional SNMP credentials, click [Add]. To delete existing SNMP credentials, click
[Delete] beside the credentials that you want to delete.
To have HP SIM try other credentials if the entered credentials fail, select If these credentials
fail, try other credentials that may apply....