HP SIM 5.3 Manual Discovery Option Disappeared

[NextGen]

We upgrade recently from 5.2 to 5.3 we lost the option to manually add of a system or at least we can’t find it anymore. Via Discovery we can create a new rule pointing to the new system and run it, it completes correctly but does not add the system.

Does anyone have experience with this matter?

The systems are VM’s running on ESX servers with WMM agents installed on it. We receive the following output:

Starting identification process...
Checking for known running web servers.
Checking for System Management Home Page and other HP web agents.
The System Management Homepage is not supported on this system.
Checking for WBEM support on system.
This system does not have any SMI-S CIMOM installed
This system doesn't have a server CIMOM installed locally, or cannot connect to it using all credentials specified
Running WBEM rules based identification.
Cannot get ComputerSystem WBEM/WMI data from the system
Running VM Identification.
The system is not a VM Host, or WBEM credentials may not be specified, skipping VM Identification
Running WS-Man identification.
The system did not respond to WS-Management, verify credentials.
Checking for SNMP support on system.
The system did not respond to SNMP, verify security settings and community strings.
Running SNMP base Cluster identification using common cluster MIB.
This was not a system with the common cluster MIBs supported.
Running HP ProLiant management agent identification
The system does not support SNMP.
Running HP NetServer identification.
The system does not support SNMP.
Running HP-UX SNMP identification.
The system does not support SNMP.
Running SNMP System Type Manager identification.
The system does not support SNMP.
Checking for DMI protocol support.
The system does not have Windows DMI support.
Running DMI System Type Manager identification.
The system does not have Windows DMI support.
Running HP-UX DMI identification.
The system does not have HP-UX DMI support.
Running HP/Compaq Desktop identification.
The system does not have Windows DMI support.
Running HP DMI Desktop identification.
The system does not have HP DMI Desktop support.
Running Generic DMI identification.
The system does not have Generic DMI support.
Running SSH Protocol identification.
The SSH protocol is not supported on this system
Running SSH Identification.
SSH Protocol is not detected; skipped SSH Identification
Running Storage identification.
Did not detect WBEM support on this system. Will not attempt storage identification. If this is a storage host, check WBEM credentials and make sure the providers and CIMOM are operational on the host.
Storage identification completed.
Running HP Service Guard Identification.
Running SNMP Subtypes identification
Create bare-metal device nodes if OA is discovered with "Automatic Device discovery" option enabled.
Create bare-metal server node if ILO is discovered with "Automatic Server discovery" option enabled.
Checking if this system is supported by Insight Power Manager.
Insight Power Manager is not supported.
Running VM identification.
VMM Integration is not enabled, skipping VM Identification
System Passes the discovery filter, system will be added.
Building system relationships.
Running limited data collection for common attribute.
The system does not have SMH or SSO support.
Running node communication diagnosis
System identification done with this system.

[Don Mooney_1]

In 5.3 you have to create the manual discovery. Under options, discovery, New, and select single system. Save it and edit it for each system you want to add, then click run now.

[NextGen]

Hello Don,

Thanks for your reply, we did find this option. The point is that the systems are not added, see the output in my original thread.

Kind regards

[Rob Buxton · Accepted solution]

The info provided is from an Identification task. If this was run against the VM itself then it's just telling you it couldn't identify it.
If it's not being discovered you may want to check that you've not got filters enabled that are excluding unidentified devices.

[NextGen]

Hello Rob,

Thank you for your reply. Indeed a filter was enabled! Via Options/Discovery/Configure General Settings I selected 'Unmanaged' and rediscover the VM, this time it is added to HP-SIM.

Thanks for your help!

Kind regards