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example, in the phased discovery described in ”
” on page 27, you could
discover your switches first. In this case, you would enter only the global credentials that apply to
the switches. After successfully running the switch discovery task, you would replace the switch
credentials with the global protocol settings for the next set of elements you want to discover.
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Some elements lock you out without warning after multiple failed login attempts. This can also
occur with hosts, depending on your security settings. If you enter several sets of global
credentials, HP SIM will try each set in the order it was entered. When the element is passed to
HP Storage Essentials, HP Storage Essentials tries each credential again. If there are too many
failed login attempts, you may be locked out of the element.
Discovery Steps
Overview
When HP Storage Essentials is integrated with HP SIM, discovery is performed from the HP SIM
discovery user interface pages. Discovery includes the following tasks:
1. Testing your SMI-S Providers (Optional)
2. Configuring the Selective Discovery Filter (Optional)
3. Configuring the HP SIM Connector to Pass Devices with the DNS Name (Optional)
5. Enabling Product Health Monitoring
6. Discovering the HP Storage Essentials Management Server
Testing your SMI-S Providers (Optional)
If you want to verify that an SMI-S provider is configured correctly, run the wbemdisco tool. See the
Troubleshooting for SMI-S providers docu
for
instructions.
Configuring the Selective Discovery Filter (Optional)
During discovery, HP SIM sends HP Storage Essentials the IP address and credential information for
the elements it has processed. The HP SIM Connector restricts the elements passed to HP Storage
Essentials to the types of elements that HP Storage Essentials supports. If you want to selectively filter
the elements that are passed from HP SIM to HP Storage Essentials in discovery operations, use the
selective discovery filter to define the set of devices that can pass from HP SIM to HP Storage
Essentials.
For example, if HP SIM is monitoring a large number of servers, and a subset of those servers has
SAN-attached storage that you want to monitor with HP Storage Essentials, you can use the selective
discovery filter to configure the environment so only that subset of servers is processed by both HP
Storage Essentials and HP SIM.
For more information, see ”