HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 5)

5 Discovery and identification.......................................................................87
Automatic discovery..............................................................................................................................87
IP protocol......................................................................................................................................87
Event-based automatic discovery........................................................................................................87
Discovery templates.........................................................................................................................88
First discovery.......................................................................................................................................88
Subsequent discoveries..........................................................................................................................88
Manual discovery.................................................................................................................................89
Hosts files.......................................................................................................................................89
Options for adding a single system....................................................................................................89
Configuring automatic discovery.............................................................................................................91
Creating a new discovery task...........................................................................................................92
Command line interface..............................................................................................................93
Editing a discovery task....................................................................................................................93
Disabling or enabling a discovery task...............................................................................................94
Deleting a discovery task..................................................................................................................95
Running a discovery task..................................................................................................................95
System types...................................................................................................................................95
Configuring automatic discovery general settings......................................................................................97
Discovery filters...............................................................................................................................99
Managing discovery templates...............................................................................................................99
Creating a new discovery template file.............................................................................................100
Editing a discovery template............................................................................................................100
Deleting a discovery template..........................................................................................................101
Adding a system manually...................................................................................................................102
Command line interface.................................................................................................................104
Managing hosts files...........................................................................................................................104
Creating a new hosts file................................................................................................................105
Hosts file format.......................................................................................................................106
Editing a hosts file..........................................................................................................................106
Deleting a hosts file........................................................................................................................107
Adding systems in a hosts file to the HP SIM database........................................................................107
Creating a task to import a hosts file for HP SIM integration................................................................108
Importing the .dat file................................................................................................................108
Displaying the systems...............................................................................................................108
Exporting Insight Manager (WIN32) files....................................................................................108
Batch adding systems through the CLI...............................................................................................109
Hosts file extensions.......................................................................................................................109
Default values..........................................................................................................................111
IP ranges......................................................................................................................................112
Identification......................................................................................................................................112
Initial identification.........................................................................................................................113
Identifying systems.........................................................................................................................113
Manage system types..........................................................................................................................113
Navigating the Manage System Types page......................................................................................114
System type.............................................................................................................................115
Columns..................................................................................................................................115
Total.......................................................................................................................................115
Available buttons......................................................................................................................115
About System Type Manager...........................................................................................................115
Why add or modify system identification?....................................................................................116
Options for creating a System Type Manager rule.........................................................................116
Creating STM rules........................................................................................................................116
Command line interface............................................................................................................118
Editing STM rules...........................................................................................................................119
Deleting STM rules.........................................................................................................................119
Additional information for creating STM rules....................................................................................120
Things you should know about DMI identification..........................................................................120
Adding new DMI rules (from Windows CMS only)........................................................................121
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