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Scanning for new hosts, About merging hosts, Prerequisites for merging hosts – HP XP Array Manager Software User Manual

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A LUN Manager, or LUN Management, must be installed on the target storage system.

Scanning for new hosts

Before you perform this task, review the

Prerequisites for scanning for hosts

” on page 22.

To scan for new hosts:

1.

On the Administration tab, select Managed Resources.

2.

On the Hosts tab, select the More Actions pull-down menu and select Host Scan.

3.

Specify the appropriate information and run the host scan.

About merging hosts

Merging hosts improves agentless ability to associate host names with automatically created host
groups.

WWN names that are registered to multiple hosts can be merged into one destination host. The source
host will be deleted upon completion of the merge.

Information about WWN names are also merged. If the host that is monitored by the Host Data
Collector or Device Manager agent is merged as a source host, the source IP address will not be
migrated.

Prerequisites for merging hosts

Only certain host types can be merged to improve ability to associate host names with automatically
created host groups.

Before you merge hosts, the destination host cannot be:

mainframe

virtual

not registered with a WWN

Merging hosts

To merge hosts:

1.

On the Administration tab, select Managed Resources.

2.

On the Hosts tab, select the target host and from the More Actions pull-down menu, select Merge
Hosts.

3.

Select the source host to merge the hosts.

4.

Check the task status to confirm that the task has completed successfully.

5.

When the task completes, confirm that the source hosts are deleted from the Hosts list in the
Resources tree.

About acquiring the most recent host information

To get current information about a host, you can manually refresh the system at any time.

When you refresh registered hosts, the following displayed information is updated:

Host names

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