topic Re: Manual Discovery in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Manual Discovery

ace77 — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:17:25 GMT

This is probably a simple question but bugging me. In previous versions of SIM, when doing a discovery for a single machine, there was a tab or section where you could do a manual discovery by just inputting the host name or IP address.

In 6.2, I only see a choice of setting up a task schedule for discovery. I know I can just setup a disabled scheduled task for the single machine and then run it changing the name of the machine to discover everytime but it was much simpler to do so in the previous version.

Re: Manual Discovery

fred Passeron — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:28:57 GMT

Hi

if the UI does not meet your needs, use the cli on the cms server, open a dos prrompt and use mxnode command : mxnode -a -n name of the node to add if I remember well

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/info-library51/mxnode.1m.html

I personnally find it easier that way :-)

hope it helps

fred

Re: Manual Discovery

Martin Smoral — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:19:59 GMT

I agree. I believe in SIM 6.0 when you create a new discovery task it just gives you a choice of a single system or multiple systems

Re: Manual Discovery

fred Passeron — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:46:02 GMT

sorry made a mistake : mxnode -a name of the server is enough :-)

Re: Manual Discovery

NJK-Work — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:12:32 GMT

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Nelson