HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 37)

However, when a credential is overwritten, instead of deleted and then re-added, the credential
is changed and each system referencing it uses the new username/password values.
If the intent is not to change what is currently in use, you must add a new credential. For discovery
tasks, a new discovery task must be created with its own credentials, instead of editing an existing
discovery task, if the systems require different credentials than contained in the existing discovery
task.
Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password
pairs
To save time and effort, create an XML file that defines your system authorizations before running
discovery. For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
15.43.215.47
15.43.212.150
15.3.110.117
15.3.105.51
15.3.110.113
-->
<nodelist>
<node name="system1">
<credential protocol="wbem" username="root"
password="pswd" />
</node>
<node name="system2">
<credential protocol="wbem" username="root"
password="pswd" />
</node>
<node name="system3">
<credential protocol="wbem" username="root"
password="pswd" />
</node>
<node name="system4">
<credential protocol="wbem" username="root"
password="pswd" />
</node>
<node name="system5">
<credential protocol="wbem" username="euploid\administrator"
password="pswd" />
</node>
</nodelist>
You can include the IP addresses of the systems to be discovered in an XML comment so that you
can maintain the IP addresses with the XML file and can copy and paste into the Ping inclusion
ranges, system (hosts) names, templates, and/or hosts files field when creating or editing a discovery
task.
After you create the XML file import it into HP SIM before running discovery using the following
CLI command:
mxnodesecurity -a -f <path-to-xml-file>
HP recommends limiting the WBEM user name and password pairs to 10 to reduce the overall
discovery run time.
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