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Undiscovered hosts display as storage systems – HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition Software User Manual

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Troubleshooting

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*The CIM extension for Microsoft Windows enhances Windows Management Instrumentation

(WMI) so that it can gather information from host bus adapters and make the information available

to the management server.

IMPORTANT:

One way to determine what is happening is to look at the log messages during

discovery and getting element details. See

Viewing Log Messages

” on page 74 for more

information.

Undiscovered Hosts Display as Storage Systems

On rare occasions, the management server displays undiscovered hosts as storage systems in

System Manager. To resolve this issue, provide the host’s world wide name (WWN) as described in

the following steps:

1.

Determine the host’s WWN. This information is available on the IEEE Standards Association

web site at

http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt

.

2.

Select Options > Storage Essentials > Manage Product Health, and then click Advanced in the

Disk Space tree.

3.

Click Show Default Properties at the bottom of the page.

4.

Copy the following property:

#hostPortWWNs=

5.

Return to the Advanced page.

6.

Paste the copied text into the Custom Properties box.

7.

Uncomment the hostPortWWNs property by removing the hash mark (#) in front of
hostPortWWNs

.

When discovering a

Windows-based host, the

correct IP address is entered,

but the host does not appear in

the topology.
The following can be seen on

the host:

In Windows Event Manager

the WinMgmt.exe process

is not running. This process

starts WMI.*

In the Windows Event Log,

DCOM error messages are

shown.

An invalid user account was

entered

Enter a valid user account that

has administrative privileges so

it can start WMI.

Table 161

Troubleshooting Discovery and Discovery Data Collection (continued)

Scenario

Description

What to do

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