HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Discovery and Identification \| Configuring Discovery General Settings \| Discovery Filters

Discovery Filters


»	Table of Contents
»	Index


»	Notices
»	Introduction
»	Product Overview
»	Getting Started
»	Discovery and Identification
	»	Configuring Automatic Discovery
	»	Configuring Discovery General Settings
			Discovery Filters
	»	Managing Discovery Templates
	»	Adding a System Manually
	»	Managing Hosts Files
	»	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


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Discovery filters are a mechanism to prevent or allow 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 the alternative of specifying the IP addresses of each individual system. Discovery filters do not apply to manually added systems.

There are three ways to access discovery filters:

Select OptionsDiscovery to access the Discovery page. From the Automatic tab, click Configure general settings and select Enable discovery filters.
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.
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, deselect the Enable discovery filters checkbox. To enable filters, check the Enable discovery filters checkbox and select the appropriate 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. Refer to Discovery and Identification - Configuring 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 Agents 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. Refer to Protocols - Setting Global Protocols for more information.

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