HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software - Manual (Page 117)

Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 85
Discovering HP and IBM Tape Libraries
Discovery from HP SIM
To discover a tape library, provide the following information in HP Systems Insight Manager:
• IP address or system name for the tape library. See ” Adding an IP Range for Scanning ” on
page 24 or ” Adding a Single IP Address or DNS Name for Discovery ” on page 25 for more
information.
• For HP tape libraries you do not need to provide a namespace.
• For IBM tape libraries the namespace (/root/ibm) is already provided in the wbemportlist.xml
file on the server running HP SIM.
• User name of the tape library.
• Password of the tape library.
Discovery from HP SE
To discover an HP or IBM tape library:
1. Click Tools > Storage Essentials > Home > on the HP SIM home page menu. See
” Accessing the Discovery Pages for HP SIM and HP SE ” on page 17 for if needed. Discovery
> Setup.
2. Select Step 1 at the top of the page.
3. Click the IP Addresses tab.
4. Click the Add Address button.
5. In the IP Address/DNS Name field, enter the IP address or DNS name for the tape library.
Provide the namespace for the tape library after the IP address or DNS name of the tape
library. For example: 192.168.1.1:root/ibm, where 192.168.1.1 is the IP address of the tape
library and root/ibm is its namespace.
6. Enter the User Name of the system running the tape library.
7. Enter the Password of the system running the tape library.
8. Retype the password in the Verify Password field.
9. In the Comment field (optional), type a comment for additional information. The information
typed into this field is displayed under the Comment column in the Addresses to Discover list
(Tools > Storage Essentials > Home > Discovery > Setup).
10. Do not select the Do Not Authenticate option.
11. Click OK.
12. To start discovering elements on the network, click the Start Discovery button on the IP
Addresses tab.
Step 3 (Discovery from HP SE Only) -
Build the Topology
This section is only for Discovery from HP SE, and it describes the following:
• ” Building the Topology View ” on page 85