HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Related procedures
• Discovery and identification
• IP ranges
Disabling or enabling an existing discovery task
You can disable or enable an existing discovery task.
If you disable a task, the Schedule column displays a message that the task is disabled. You might want
to disable a task if you know your network is not going to change, or if you want to limit network traffic.
If a task is enabled, the Schedule column displays the schedule for the task.
NOTE: Manually running a disabled task by selecting the task and then clicking Run Now does not enable
the task for future discoveries.
To disable or enable a discovery task:
1. Select Options→Discovery. The Discovery page appears.
2. Select the task.
3. Click Disable to disable a task, or if the task is already disabled, click Enable to resume the automatic
execution of a task.
Related procedures
• Configuring automatic discovery general settings
• Creating a new discovery task
• Editing a discovery task
• Deleting a discovery task
• Running a discovery task
Related topics
▲ Discovery and identification
Deleting a discovery task
You can delete discovery tasks that are no longer necessary. You cannot delete the System Automatic
Discovery task. If you select this task, the Delete button is disabled.
1. Select Options→Discovery. The Discovery page appears.
2. Select tasks, and then click Delete. A confirmation box appears.
If you selected to delete a discovery task for a group of systems and it has user name and password
credentials set, select how you want to delete them. Select from the following:
• Delete the credentials and any working references to them
• First copy the credentials to all systems referencing them, then delete the global credentials
3. To delete this task, click OK, or to cancel the deletion process, click Cancel.
Related procedures
• Configuring automatic discovery general settings
• Creating a new discovery task
• Editing a discovery task
• Disabling or enabling an existing discovery task
• Running a discovery task
Related topics
• Discovery and identification
• IP ranges
Configuring automatic discovery 101