HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide Second Edition (Linux Release) (T4283-96056, November 2006)

Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 117
Discovery from HP SE
1. Discover your hosts as described in this section.
2. Build the topology. See ”Step B - (Discovery from HP SE Only) Build the Topology” on
page 120.
3. If you want to view the topology, you can access System Manager. See ”(Optional) Step C -
(Discovery from HP SE Only)View the Topology” on page 120.
4. Perform Get Details. See ”Step D - Obtain Details” on page 121.
Use the following table as a guideline for SE discovery:
Keep in mind the following:
• If you started a CIM Extension on a Sun Solaris host with the ./start -users command, the user
name provided in the command must be used to discover the host. For example, if you use
./start -users myname:yourname (where myname and yourname are valid UNIX accounts) to
start the CIM Extension, myname or yourname and its password must be used to discover the
host.
Table 13 Making the Management Server Aware of Hosts (SE Discovery Only)
Step Description
1 If several of the elements in the same domain use the same name and password,
click the Set Default User name and Password link and provide up to three user
names and passwords.
2 To enter an IP address range, click the IP Ranges tab and then the Add Range
button.
If necessary, enter a user name and password for the devices in the range.
During a scan of an IP range, the software uses ping; however, ping is not
guaranteed to return a response from all devices. If the management server is not
able to detect the device during a scan of the IP range, discover the device directly
as described in Step 4.
3Click the Start Scanning button. The management server detects targets it can
ping and adds them to the IP Address tab automatically. Ping does not guarantee a
response. When you start the discovery process, these addresses are included.
4 If a device was not found during an IP scan, enter an IP address by clicking the IP
Addresses tab and then the Add Address button.
If necessary, enter a user name and password for the device.
5Click the Start Discovery button.
6 Run Get Details. See Get Details takes some time. You might want to perform this
process when the network and the managed elements are not busy. Click Tools >
Storage Essentials > Home > Discovery > Details.