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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Deleting 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

Be sure that this hosts file is not in use. A hosts file is not in use when:

  • There are no references to it in the Ping exclusion ranges, templates and/or hosts files section of the general settings page.

  • There are no references to it in the Ping inclusion ranges, templates, and/or hosts files section of every existing discovery task.

Only delete hosts files if you no longer need them or if you are creating a new hosts file.

To delete a hosts file:

  1. Select OptionsDiscovery and select the Hosts Files tab.

  2. Select hosts files to delete and click [Delete]. A confirmation box appears.

  3. Click [OK] to delete the hosts files, or click [Cancel] to cancel the delete process.

Related Procedures

» Managing Hosts Files - Creating a New Hosts File
» Managing Hosts Files - Editing 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