Entering snmp settings, Enabling system automatic discovery – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

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First Time Wizard

Global protocols

Protocols

Configuring HP SIM with storage systems

Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password pairs

Entering SNMP settings

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) uses the

SNMP

to communicate with

managed systems

. Community

strings set up the authentication that enables communication between HP SIM and a managed system. You
can enter read community strings in the First Time Wizard, or in the HP SIM menu bar. (GUI). To disable
SNMP communication, enter community strings, or control other SNMP settings not available in the wizard,
select Options

Protocol SettingsGlobal Protocol Settings.

If you do not have SNMP systems in your network, you do not need to enter information here. If you have
SNMP systems and you do not enter read community strings that match these systems, HP SIM will not
discover them.

NOTE:

See

“Setting protocols for a system or groups of systems”

for information on fine tuning protocol

settings for a single system or a group of similar systems.

1.

In the Read community string fields, enter up to four read community strings. Community strings are
case-sensitive and apply to all newly discovered systems.

The

identification

process attempts communication to a system, using each read community in succession

until a successful response is obtained. Future SNMP requests use the community string that provided
a successful response.

2.

Click Next to go to the next First Time Wizard step.

Related procedures

First Time Wizard

Entering WBEM settings

Enabling system automatic discovery

Adding users to the Central Management Server

Configuring e-mail settings

Configuring automatic event handling

First Time Wizard summary

Setting global protocols

Related topics

First Time Wizard

Global protocols

Protocols

Enabling system automatic discovery

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) uses

automatic discovery

to find and identify systems on the network.

The System Automatic Discovery task is the default discovery task and is disabled by default. You can enable
and configure the System Automatic Discovery task in the First Time Wizard, or by selecting
Options

Discovery.

If the System Automatic Discovery task is enabled, it will run immediately at the conclusion of this wizard to
initially populate the HP SIM database.

You can create additional automatic discovery tasks by selecting Options

Discovery and entering the

details, and you can run

manual discovery

to discover single systems. See

“Configuring automatic discovery”

and

“Adding a system manually”

for more information.

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