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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Managing Hosts Files

»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 Topic

Hosts files can be used to manually add multiple systems to the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) database.

To use a hosts file to specify systems for an automatic discovery, add the hosts file name to the Ping inclusion ranges, templates and/or hosts files section on the Discovery page, Automatic tab, Configure general settings. Use the following statement: $Hosts_filename.

Refer to Discovery and Identification - Adding a System Manually for information on adding a single system to the database.

From the Hosts Files section, you can:

Related Procedures

» Managing Hosts Files - Creating a New Hosts File
» Managing Hosts Files - Editing a Hosts File
» Managing Hosts Files - Deleting a Hosts File
» Managing Hosts Files - Adding Systems in a Hosts File to the Database
» Managing Hosts Files - Creating a Task to Import a Hosts File for HP Systems Insight Manager Integration Task

Related Topic

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