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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Editing a Hosts File

»Table of Contents
»Index
»Notices
»Introduction
»Product Overview
»Getting Started
»Discovery and Identification
»Configuring Automatic Discovery
»Configuring Discovery General Settings
»Managing Discovery Templates
»Adding a System Manually
»Managing Hosts Files
»Creating a New Hosts File
Editing a Hosts File
»Deleting a Hosts File
»Adding Systems in a Hosts File to the Database
»Creating a Task to Import a Hosts File for HP Systems Insight Manager Integration Task
»Hosts File Extensions
»IP Ranges
»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

Perform the following procedure to edit an existing hosts file. Edit only the fields that you want.

To edit an existing hosts file:

  1. Select OptionsDiscovery and select the Hosts Files tab.

  2. Select an existing hosts file and click [Edit]. The Edit Hosts File section appears.

  3. In the Replace contents with section, select one of the radio buttons and click [Replace Now], or enter the changes in the Contents section. Refer to Managing Hosts Files - Creating a New Hosts File, step 5 for more information on the radio buttons.

  4. Click [OK] to save changes, or click [Cancel] to not save any changes.

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) reads in the hosts file and adds the systems.

Related Procedures

» Managing Hosts Files - Creating a New Hosts File
» Managing Hosts Files - Deleting a Hosts File
» Managing Hosts Files - Adding Systems in a Hosts File to the Database

Related Topics

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