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Discovering Applications, Backup Servers and Hosts

116

d. Delete the NetBackup or Data Protector server.
e. From HP SIM, delete the NetBackup or Data Protector server from the Systems list.

9.

When you are done, click Save.

10.

Restart the service for the management server for your changes to take effect.
While AppStorManager is restarting, users are not able to access the management server. The

AppStorManager service must be running for the management server to monitor elements.

11.

Discover the host that is the HP Data Protector NetBackup Master Server as described in

Step B

- Set Up Discovery for Hosts

” on page 116.

12.

You can configure the management server to obtain information about your master backup

servers at a set interval.

Step B - Set Up Discovery for Hosts

You can discover your hosts by using two methods:

Discovery from HP SIM

1.

Discover your hosts. Refer to the HP SIM documentation for more information. See

Table 12

on

page 116.

2.

Run Discovery Data Collection. See ”

Step D - Obtain Details

” on page 121.

Use the following table as a guideline.

Table 12

(Discovery from HP SIM) Discovering Hosts

Step

Description

1

If you have several hosts that use the same password and user name, set that

password and user name as the default. Use the Global Settings (Options >
Protocol Settings

> Global Settings) feature to set your default passwords.

Refer to the documentation that ships with SIM for more information.

2

Discover your host (Options > Discovery > Automatic).
One way to detect multiple IP addresses at once is to add an IP range for

scanning. The management server scans the IP range for elements and

populates the discovery list with element it could contact.
You can then discover those elements. See

Adding an IP Range for

Scanning

” on page 27 for more information.

3

Discovery Data Collection is required to obtain information from your

discovered elements. Discovery Data Collection takes some time. You might

want to perform this process when the network and the managed elements

are not busy. Click Options > Storage Essentials > Discovery > Run
Discovery Data Collection

.

See

Step D - Obtain Details

” on page 121.