Table 161 Troubleshooting Discovery and Discovery Data Collection (continued)

Scenario

Description

What to do

 

 

 

When discovering a

An invalid user account was

Enter a valid user account that

Windows-based host, the

entered

has administrative privileges so

correct IP address is entered,

 

it can start WMI.

but the host does not appear in

 

 

the topology.

 

 

The following can be seen on

 

 

the host:

 

 

In Windows Event Manager

 

 

the WinMgmt.exe process

 

 

is not running. This process

 

 

starts WMI.*

 

 

In the Windows Event Log,

 

 

DCOM error messages are

 

 

shown.

 

 

 

 

 

*The CIM extension for Microsoft Windows enhances Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) so that it can gather information from host bus adapters and make the information available to the management server.

IMPORTANT: One way to determine what is happening is to look at the log messages during discovery and getting element details. See Viewing Log Messages” on page 74 for more information.

Undiscovered Hosts Display as Storage Systems

On rare occasions, the management server displays undiscovered hosts as storage systems in System Manager. To resolve this issue, provide the host’s world wide name (WWN) as described in the following steps:

1.Determine the host’s WWN. This information is available on the IEEE Standards Association web site at http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt.

2.Select Options > Storage Essentials > Manage Product Health, and then click Advanced in the Disk Space tree.

3.Click Show Default Properties at the bottom of the page.

4.Copy the following property:

#hostPortWWNs=

5.Return to the Advanced page.

6.Paste the copied text into the Custom Properties box.

7.Uncomment the hostPortWWNs property by removing the hash mark (#) in front of hostPortWWNs.

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