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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Configuring Discovery General Settings

»Table of Contents
»Index
»Notices
»Introduction
»Product Overview
»Getting Started
»Discovery and Identification
»Configuring Automatic Discovery
Configuring Discovery General Settings
»Discovery Filters
»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 Topics

Configure automatic discovery to customize the discovery process for your environment.

All steps are optional.

To configure general settings for automatic discovery:

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

  2. In the For all automatic discoveries section, select Configure general settings. The General Settings section appears.

  3. Select Automatically discover a system when an event is received from it. This option allows systems to be discovered when a trap or some other supported event is received by HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). It uses the discovery filters and IP address exclusion ranges for additional filtering of these events.

  4. Select Automatically discover a server blade when its Integrated Lights Out management processor is identified. This option adds servers that were indirectly discovered through its management processor. When these servers are discovered, they are listed with a Disabled state on the system table view page and the only information displayed is the system serial number and the association to the iLO and the enclosure.

  5. In the Ping exclusion ranges, templates and/or hosts files field, specify the IP addresses, templates, or hosts files containing IP addresses to exclude from the automatic discovery process. This applies to both range pinging and event based auto-discovery. Refer to Managing Hosts Files - IP Ranges for more information.

    Important: When discovering clusters, the ping inclusion range must include the IP addresses of the cluster and the cluster members.

  6. Select Enable discovery filters.

  7. In the Discover the following system types: section, select the type of systems to be discovered. Refer to Configuring Automatic Discovery - System Types for more detailed information on each of the system types listed.

    Important: When discovering clusters, you must include the Server system type, or so that the cluster members are not filtered out.

    Note: This is only available when you select Enable discovery filters.

  8. In the Limit discovery to systems that meet the following criteria section, select from the following:

    • Any system that matches the above filter

    • All manageable systems (WBEM, SNMP, DMI, WMI or HTTP support)

    • Manageable systems with HP agents only

    Note: This is only available when you select Enable discovery filters.

  9. Click [OK] to save settings, or click [Cancel] to close the General Settings section without saving changes.

    If you click [OK] when discovery filters are enabled but have not selected any system types, the following error message appears:

    You must make at least one system type selection when enabling filters.

The Discovery page General Settings section is not protected from multiple users accessing the page at the same time. The last user to save the settings has their settings take affect. If discovery is in progress and the settings are applied by a different user or the same user, any remaining systems to be processed have the settings applied.

Related Topics

» HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide - Discovery and Identification
» Managing Hosts Files - IP Ranges
» Configuring Discovery General Settings - Discovery Filters
» Configuring Automatic Discovery - System Types
» Protocols - Global Protocols