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Discovery is the process that HP Systems Insight Manager uses to find
and identify the systems on your network to populate the database with that
information. A system must first be discovered in order to collect data and
track system status. There are two basic ways to discover new systems: Automatic discovery. The process that HP Systems Insight Manager uses to find and identify the systems on your
network to populate the database with that information. A system must first be discovered to collect data and track system status. Manual discovery. The process that enables you to bypass a full automatic discovery and
add single and multiple systems to the database, create or import the HP Systems
Insight Manager database Hosts file, and create or import a generic Hosts
file.
Configuring and Executing Automatic Discovery | |
Select Options DiscoveryAutomatic Discovery. The Automatic Discovery - General Settings page is displayed. In the Schedule section, select Automatically execute discovery every:, and
enter the number of months, weeks, hours, days, or a combination between each.
You can also specify the start time for daily, weekly, or monthly schedules.
The default is once a day. Select any of the five options available in the Discovery configuration section: Use discovery filters.
This option enables you to eliminate undesired system types from being discovered and managed. Click discovery filters to change the settings. Discovery
filters can also be enabled or disabled from this page. However, you must
click Save or Save and Run at the bottom of the page. Automatically discover a system
when an event is received from it. This option allows systems to
be discovered when a trap or some other supported event is received by HP
Systems Insight Manager. It uses the discovery filters and IP address exclusion
ranges for additional filtering of these events. Automatically discover a server
blade when its Integrated Lights Out management processor is identified.
This option adds servers that were indirectly discovered through its managmeent
processor. When these servers are discovered, they are listed with a Disabled
state on the system list page and the only information displayed is the system
serial number and the association to the iLO and the enclosure. Configure global protocol settings If you click Configure global protocol
settings, the Global Protocol Settings page is displayed. Set the Default ping
settings, and verify your settings to Enable WBEM, Enable HTTP and HTTPS, Enable SNMP, and Enable
DMI. Note: You need Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) enabled with correct
security settings on HP Systems Insight Manager and running on the target
systems to discover clusters correctly. Note: Desktop Management Interface (DMI) is not available on Linux systems. Click OK to save changes,
and then click the Automatic Discovery link
at the top of the page to return to the Automatic
Discovery - General Settings page.
In the IP address ranges section
of the Automatic Discovery - General Settings page,
specify the IP addresses to include or exclude for pinging. Be sure to specify
the Exclusion ranges for any of the automatic
discovery processes, which applies to both range pinging and event based auto-discovery. You can click templates to create
discovery templates or click hosts files to
create hosts files. After creating a discovery template, you can reference it by using @template_name in
the Ping inclusion ranges or Exclusion ranges fields. | | | |  | NOTE: A single discovery template cannot include both included and excluded
ranges. You must create a separate template for use in each field of automatic
discovery. Template files cannot be nested, that is, a template file cannot
contain another template file name through the @template_name reference. | | | | |
Click Save to save the current
configuration, or click Save and Run to
save the current configuration and run discovery immediately. | | | |  | IMPORTANT: The new configuration is not saved until you click Save to save your settings or click Save and Run to begin the discovery process immediately. If you
click Save and Run, this button changes
to Stop Automatic Discovery. While
automatic discovery is running, you can click this button to stop it from
running. | | | | |
Configuring and Executing Manual Discovery | |
Select OptionsDiscoveryManual Discovery. On the Manual Discovery - Add System page,
in the System Information section, select
the System name radio button and enter
the system name, or select the IP address radio button
and enter the IP address. Click Add System to add the system
to the database, or click More Settings to
enter the following optional information: Specify additional system properties
to use only if Identification fails on this system. Includes: SNMP Settings. Includes: Read-only community string
If you clicked More Settings,
click Add System to add the system
immediately or click Fewer Settings to
return to the previous brief display. If you clicked Fewer Settings, click Add System to
add the system to the database.
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