HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 32)

Discovery filters
Discovery filters prevent or enable certain system types from being added to the database through automatic
discovery. When you want to discover systems of a certain type, using filters is much easier than specifying
the IP addresses of each individual system. Discovery filters do not apply to individually added systems.
You can access discovery filters from the Discovery page by selecting Enable discovery filters in the
Configure general settings
, section.
To disable filters, clear the Enable discovery filters checkbox. To enable filters, select the Enable discovery
filters
checkbox, and then select the system types that you want to discover.
To access and modify discovery filters, you must have administrative rights . If discovery filters are enabled,
only systems of the selected types are added to the database through automatic discovery. Because all tasks
operate on systems that exist in the database, tasks do not run on any system until the filter criteria has been
met and that system has been added to the database. Filters do not affect any systems already discovered,
even if the systems change to a type that no longer matches the current filter. If discovery filters are disabled,
automatic discovery discovers systems according to the General Settings for All Discoveries section on
the Discovery page.
If you do not discover the HP systems that you expect to find, ensure that the Insight Management Agents
are installed and running correctly on the target systems. In addition, verify that the SNMP Community Strings
settings and WBEM user name and passwords in Systems Insight Manager and on the agents for systems
that are not discovered are configured correctly.
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