Instruction Manual

• First Time Wizard
• Global protocols
• Protocols
• Configuring HP SIM with storage systems
• Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password pairs
Entering SNMP settings
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) uses the SNMP to communicate with managed systems . Community
strings set up the authentication that enables communication between HP SIM and a managed system. You
can enter read community strings in the First Time Wizard, or in the HP SIM menu bar. (GUI). To disable
SNMP communication, enter community strings, or control other SNMP settings not available in the wizard,
select Options→Protocol Settings→Global Protocol Settings.
If you do not have SNMP systems in your network, you do not need to enter information here. If you have
SNMP systems and you do not enter read community strings that match these systems, HP SIM will not
discover them.
NOTE: See “Setting protocols for a system or groups of systems” for information on fine tuning protocol
settings for a single system or a group of similar systems.
1. In the Read community string fields, enter up to four read community strings. Community strings are
case-sensitive and apply to all newly discovered systems.
The identification process attempts communication to a system, using each read community in succession
until a successful response is obtained. Future SNMP requests use the community string that provided
a successful response.
2. Click Next to go to the next First Time Wizard step.
Related procedures
• First Time Wizard
• Entering WBEM settings
• Enabling system automatic discovery
• Adding users to the Central Management Server
• Configuring e-mail settings
• Configuring automatic event handling
• First Time Wizard summary
• Setting global protocols
Related topics
• First Time Wizard
• Global protocols
• Protocols
Enabling system automatic discovery
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) uses 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.
If the System Automatic Discovery task is enabled, it will run immediately at the conclusion of this wizard to
initially populate the HP SIM database.
You can create additional automatic discovery tasks by selecting Options→Discovery and entering the
details, and you can run manual discovery to discover single systems. See“Configuring automatic discovery”
and “Adding a system manually” for more information.
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