HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 99)

Related topics
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Discovery and identification
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IP ranges
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Discovery filters
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System types
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Global protocols
Discovery filters
Discovery filters are a mechanism to prevent or enable certain system types from ever being added to the
database through automatic discovery . When you want to discover systems of certain types, using filters is
much easier than specifying the IP addresses of each individual system. Discovery filters do not apply to
manually added systems.
You can access discovery filters in three ways:
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Select Options
→Discovery to access the Discovery page. From the Automatic tab, click Configure
general settings , and select Enable discovery filters.
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From the Home page, in the Manage section, click discovery. The Discovery page appears. From
the Automatic tab, click Configure general settings, and select Enable discovery filters.
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From the introductory page, in the Do this now to complete the installation section, click Automatic.
The Discovery page appears. From the Automatic tab, click Configure general settings, and select
Enable discovery filters
.
To disable filters, clear the Enable discovery filters checkbox. To enable filters, select the Enable discovery
filters
checkbox and select the system types that you want to discover.
To access and modify discovery filters, you must have full configuration rights . If discovery filters are enabled,
only systems of the selected types are added to the database through automatic discovery. Because all tasks
operate on systems that exist in the database, tasks do not run on any system until the filter has been met
and that system has been added to the database. The filters do not affect any systems already discovered,
even if they change to a type that no longer matches the current filter. If discovery filters are disabled,
automatic discovery discovers systems according to the General Settings section on the Discovery page,
Automatic
tab. See “Configuring automatic discovery general settings” for more information on configuring
discovery filters.
If you do not discover the HP systems that you expect to find, ensure the HP Insight Management Agent s are
installed and running correctly on the target systems. In addition, verify that the SNMP Community Strings
settings and WBEM user name and passwords in HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) and on the agents
for systems that are not discovered are configured correctly. See
“Setting global protocols” for more
information.
Related procedure
▲ Configuring automatic discovery general settings
Related topic
▲ Discovery and identification
Managing discovery templates
Discovery templates are files that can be used by automatic discovery instead of entering the addresses
directly in to the Ping inclusion ranges, templates and/or hosts files or Ping exclusion ranges,
templates and/or hosts files
fields. They are designed to be used as a quick way to change the scope of
automatic discovery. See “Discovery and identification” , and the "Discovery templates" section for more
information.
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