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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Creating a New Hosts File
»Table of Contents
»Index
»Notices
»Introduction
»Product Overview
»Getting Started
»Discovery and Identification
»Configuring Automatic Discovery
»Configuring Discovery General Settings
»Managing Discovery Templates
»Adding a System Manually
»Managing Hosts Files
Creating a New Hosts File
»Editing a Hosts File
»Deleting a Hosts File
»Adding Systems in a Hosts File to the Database
»Creating a Task to Import a Hosts File for HP Systems Insight Manager Integration Task
»Hosts File Extensions
»IP Ranges
»Identification
»Manage System Types
»Users and Authorizations
»Networking and Security
»Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events
»Storage Integration
»Managing with Tasks
»Tools that Extend Management
»Partner Applications
»Reporting
»Administering Systems and Events
»Troubleshooting
»Reference Information
»Printable version
»Glossary
»Using Help
» Related Procedures
» Related Topics

This procedure enables you to create a new hosts file for use in HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM).

  Note:

For a keyword that contains more than one word, such as "management processor," enclose the full keyword in double quotation marks. Quotation marks are optional for single keywords like server.

  Note:

For clusters, be sure that the cluster and its members are defined in the hosts file.

To create a hosts file:

  1. Select OptionsDiscovery and select the Hosts Files tab.

  2. Click [New] to create a new hosts file. The New Hosts File section appears.

    New Hosts File

  3. In the Hosts file name field, enter a name for the new hosts file. This field is required.

  4. Under Initialize contents with, select one of the following:

    • Empty file. Resets the contents into the Contents window.

    • Systems loaded from the central management server, sorted by:. Select the IP address, System name, System type and then by IP address, or System type and then by System name. This option loads the systems being managed by HP SIM into the Contents window.

    • Systems loaded from hosts file. Enter the file name and location (for example, c:\ doc.txt) or click [Browse] to browse to the location of the hosts file. This option reads the contents of the specified file and displays it in the Contents window.

  5. If you did not select Empty File, click [Initialize Now] to load the hosts file. Otherwise, enter the contents of the hosts file in the Contents section.

  6. Click [OK] to save the hosts file, or click [Cancel] to cancel any changes you have made.

Related Procedures

» Managing Hosts Files - Editing a Hosts File
» Managing Hosts Files - Deleting a Hosts File
» Managing Hosts Files - Adding Systems in a Hosts File to the Database

Related Topics

» HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide - Discovery and Identification
» Discovery and Identification - Managing Hosts Files
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