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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Creating a New Discovery Task

»Table of Contents
»Index
»Notices
»Introduction
»Product Overview
»Getting Started
»Discovery and Identification
»Configuring Automatic Discovery
Creating a New Discovery Task
»Editing a Discovery Task
»Disabling or Enabling a Discovery Task
»Deleting a Discovery Task
»Running a Discovery Task
»System Types
»Configuring Discovery General Settings
»Managing Discovery Templates
»Adding a System Manually
»Managing Hosts Files
»Identification
»Manage System Types
»Users and Authorizations
»Networking and Security
»Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events
»Storage Integration
»Managing with Tasks
»Tools that Extend Management
»Partner Applications
»Reporting
»Administering Systems and Events
»Troubleshooting
»Reference Information
»Printable version
»Glossary
»Using Help
» Related Procedures
» Related Topics

This procedure enables you to create new discovery tasks.

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

  2. Click [New] to create a new discovery task. The New Discovery section appears.

    New Discovery Task
  3. In the Name field, enter a name for the task. This is a required field.

  4. In the Schedule section, select Automatically execute discovery every and enter when the task should run. The default is one a day. If you deselect Automatically execute discovery every, the task is disabled after it is created.

  5. In the Configuration section, select from:

    • IP range pinging

    • IPX SAP (Windows CMS only)

  6. In the Ping inclusion ranges, templates and/or hosts files field, specify the IP addresses to include for pinging. Refer to Managing Hosts Files - IP Ranges for more information on entering IP ranges.

  7. Click [OK] to save the task, or [Cancel] to close the New Discovery section and not save any settings.

    Note: If you have selected a large number of systems, a message appears, stating The automatic discovery task is configured with a large number of addresses: [NUM]. Click [OK] to continue anyway or click [Cancel] to change the IP address range.

Related Procedures

» Discovery and Identification - Configuring Discovery General Settings
» Configuring Automatic Discovery - Editing a Discovery Task
» Configuring Automatic Discovery - Disabling or Enabling a Discovery Task
» Configuring Automatic Discovery - Deleting a Discovery Task
» Configuring Automatic Discovery - Running a Discovery Task

Related Topics

» HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide - Discovery and Identification
» Managing Hosts Files - IP Ranges