How to manually change System Type?

[Jeff Hayford]

In CIM7, I used to be able to hand edit and lock the system name and type. I have a lot of devices that aren't fully supported by SIM. I just want to be able to see my inventory at a glance. Is there a way to do this now?

~Jeff

[Gene Nordahl]

You can try Options/Discovery/Manage System Types and see if you can do what you need there. That's the only thing I can find for modifiying/adding system types.

More info from the help file.
For most HP systems, the system type and product name cannot be modified. Outside of this, identification can be customized based on SNMP System Object Identifiers (OIDs). Manufacturers assign unique system object identifiers to their SNMP instrumented products. STM allows users to customize identification by creating rules that map these system object identifiers to product categories and names of their choice. Only users with full configuration rights can use STM.

[Jeff Hayford]

I have equipment that shows up in the "System Name" column with just an IP. In CIM7, you could edit that manually in the Manual Discovery section. SIM only lets you add, and not edit what's there.

[Rob Buxton]

No, the System Name table gets its name from the DNS, you'll need to add entries in both the reverse and forward lookup tables before a System Name will appear here.

[ralph ericsson]

HiI still have a lot of servers showing as unknown, and have no clue on how to get them to show as servers. have tried everything....If I type ipconfig -all in command on one of the unknown servers, it shows that Node Type : Unknown. would it help to change that to server?If so, how do I do that?regards Ralph

[Jeff Hayford]

One thing that has helped us:

If you're renaming a box, either disjoin it from the domain and rejoin with the new name, or type the following from a cmd prompt:

nbtstat -N
nbtstat -NN
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns

Then delete it from SIM and let it be rediscovered.

This is a pain, but it's the only way we've found to set DNS right and get SIM to recognize the right name.

[Rob Buxton]

There seem to be two issues here.

The name a Server has is, in HPSIM, determined by it's DNS Entry or an entry in the IM Hosts file. Unlike CIM 7 you need to have both forward and reverse entries in the DNS to get it to show the Server name, otherwise you're just left with the IP Address

The Server type is determined by the identification of a device by one of several protocols, SNMP, DMI, Web Agent.

Unknown indicates some kind of Management protocol is up and running but IM has not been able to get enough info about the device to identify it.
On a Proliant running Windows, IM can determine enough just from SNMP providing SNMP has access.
Note there is a difference in the default settings of SNMP between W2000 and W2003, W2000 allowed all hosts access, W2003 allows selected. Look in the SNMP config screen under Services.

[Jeff Hayford_1]

My suggestion: get a Mac.