HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

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• Configuring the managed environment

• Entering WBEM settings

• Enabling automatic system discovery

• Configuring managed systems

• Configuring e-mail settings

• First Time Wizard summary

• Setting global protocols

Related topics

• Using the First Time Wizard

• Finishing the First Time Wizard

• Operating-system-specific collections, reports, and tools

• Global protocols

• Protocols

Enabling automatic system 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 by selecting Options→Discovery from the HP SIM

menu. You can create multiple automatic discovery tasks from the Discovery page and run

manual discovery

to discover single systems. See “Configuring automatic discovery” and “Adding a system manually” for

more information.

To enable automatic system discovery:

1. Select Options→Discovery. The Discovery page appears with the Automatic tab selected.

2. Select the System Automatic Discovery task.

3. Click Enable to enable the task.

4. To configure the System Automatic Discovery task to run on a regular schedule, select Automatically

execute discovery every in the Schedule section, and then 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.

5. In the Ping inclusion ranges, system (hosts) names, templates, and/or hosts files field, specify

the IP addresses to include for pinging. 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 Fully Qualified Domain

Names (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.

6. To save the task, click OK, or to close the New Discovery section and not save any settings, click

Cancel.

Related procedures

• Configuring the managed environment

• Entering WBEM settings

• Entering SNMP settings

• Configuring managed systems

• Configuring e-mail settings

• First Time Wizard summary

• Configuring automatic discovery