HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

1. Select Run discovery once after wizard finishes to have the System Automatic Discovery task run
immediately after First Time Wizard finishes.
2. To schedule the task to run at a specific time, select Schedule.
3. To configure the System Automatic Discovery task to run on a regular schedule, enter how often the task
should run. The default frequency is once per day. If you clear the Automatically execute discovery
every option, the task is disabled after it is created.
4. In the Ping inclusion ranges, system (hosts) names, templates, and/or hosts files field, specify
the IP addresses. 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 FQDN host names. However, you cannot enter a
range of host names. See “IP ranges” for more information about entering IP ranges. To use an existing
hosts file, enter the hosts file name in the following format: $HostsFileName .
Alternatively, you can create a separate discovery task for your SMI CIMOMs. See “Editing a discovery
task” and “Creating a new discovery task” for more information.
5. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click Next, or to return to the previous step, click Previous.
Related procedures
• Configuring the managed environment
• Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign in credentials
• Configuring managed systems
• Configuring the WMI Mapper Proxy
• Configuring privilege elevation on HP-UX
• Configuring e-mail settings
• First Time Wizard summary
• Configuring automatic discovery
Related topics
• Using the First Time Wizard
• Operating-system-specific collections, reports, and tools
• Discovery and identification
• Configuring automatic discovery general settings
• Configuring HP SIM with storage systems
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, tr y
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.
4. To have HP SIM try other credentials if the entered credentials fail, select If these credentials fail, tr y
other credentials that may apply....
5. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click Next, or to return to the previous step, click Previous.
Related procedures
• Configuring the managed environment
• Enabling automatic system discovery
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