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18 Discovering Applications, Backup Hosts and Hosts
HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition supports a subset of the devices supported by Enterprise
Edition. See the HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition Support Matrix for a list of supported
devices. The support matrix is accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation
Center in Storage Essentials).
This chapter describes the following:
• Step 1 — Discovering Your Hosts and Backup Manager Hosts, page 297
• Step 2 — Setting Up Discovery for Applications, page 302
• Step 3 — Discovering Applications, page 335
• Changing the Oracle TNS Listener Port, page 338
• Changing the Password for the Managed Database Account, page 338
Step 1 — Discovering Your Hosts and Backup Manager Hosts
Before you can discover your applications, you must discover their hosts. You discover hosts in the
same way you discovered your switches and storage systems. You provide the host’s IP address,
user name and password. The user name and password must have administrative privileges.
Unlike switches and storage systems, you must have installed a CIM extension on the host if you
want to obtain detailed information about the host and its applications, including those
applications for backup. See the support matrix for your edition for information about which
backup applications the management server supports.
For information about discovering clustered hosts, see ”Host and Application Clustering” on
page 341.
The management server also detects the backup applications its supports, such as Veritas™
NetBackup™ or HP Data Protector. If you are licensed for Backup Manager and you want to
manage and monitor your backup applications, select Include backup details when you run
Discovery Data Collection, as described in ”Step B — Discovery Data Collection” on page 301.
Keep in mind the following:
• Make sure you have reviewed the table, Table 2 on page 2 to make sure you are at the correct
step.
• Elements discovered through SMI-S and hosts discovered with CIM extensions from Build 5.1
and later of HP Storage Essentials cannot be added to discovery groups. These elements are
listed separately and can be placed independently into scheduled Discovery Data Collection
tasks without being part of a discovery group. This allows you greater flexibility when gathering
discovery data. (For more information, see ”Creating Custom Discovery Lists” on page 163).
If you are upgrading from a previous build of the product, and you rediscover your hosts, they
will be moved out of their existing discovery groups. Each rediscovered host would be placed
in its own discovry group. If the original discovery groups containing these hosts were included
in scheduled Discovery Data Collection tasks, the schedules would be modified to contain the
new discovery groups for rediscovered hosts.