HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 67)

DIAGNOSTICS
ipmexport displays error messages in stderr for any of the following conditions:
+ Machine run on is not an active HPSIM CMS.
+ User has no HPSIM credentials
+ HPSIM is not running, often indicated by ConnectException or Connection refused message. In this
instance, try mxstart, and wait for the cimserver and mxdomainmgr daemons to come up before trying the
ipmexport command again.
FILES
/opt/ipm/examples is a directory containing examples of converted files and formats.
AUTHORS
ipmexport was developed by the Hewlett-Packard Company.
SEE ALSO
ipm(1M), ipmimport(1M), ipmtxt2vis(1M).
ipmimport(1M)
NAME
ipmimport - Insight Control Power Management Topology Data Command Line Import Tool
SYNOPSIS
/opt/ipm/bin/ipmimport input_text_file
DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this tool is to load a text representation of data center topology by device, rack, and row
into the HPSIM database. Because this tool requires the IPM database, it must be run from an active HPSIM
Central Management Server (CMS) node by a user with database write permission. The common
attribute:value text format is described in ipm.1m in detail.
Note that importing of large numbers of devices and relationships can take on the order of a few creations
per second. Every twenty write operations the tool will print out a "." character to let the user know that
forward progress is being made. If progress stalls out, the CMS may need more memory. Please see the HP
Systems Insight Manager Installation and Configuration Guide for details about resource requirements
(http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim).
EXAMPLES
This is a sample input file. Case and spacing are ignored by the parser.
DatacentreID:Lab5
RowNumber:1
RackName:southamerica, PositionRow:8, rackHeight:48
DeviceName:ecuador, StartU:17, HeightU:4
DeviceName:bolivia, StartU:13, HeightU:8
DeviceName:peru, StartU:5, HeightU:2
To clearly identify the changes made by the import, save a snapshot of the existing HPSIM configuration
using
ipmexport > /tmp/before
After ipmimport datacenterFilename.txt succeeds, find out the new representation in the HPSIM database
using
ipmexport > /tmp/after
Devices without any parent rack specified are known as "orphans". Compare the "orphaned devices" section
of the before and after snapsots to find recently imported items considered to be orphans. There are several
reasons that devices are orphaned. Verify that the device in question are up using ping. Sometimes, the
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