Table 11 Making the Management Server Aware of Hosts (SE Discovery Only) (continued)

Step

Description

 

 

2

To enter an IP address range, click the IP Ranges tab and then the Add Range

 

button.

 

If necessary, enter a user name and password for the devices in the range.

 

During a scan of an IP range, the software uses ping; however, ping is not

 

guaranteed to return a response from all devices. If the management server is not

 

able to detect the device during a scan of the IP range, discover the device directly

 

as described in Step 4.

 

 

3

Click the Start Scanning button. The management server detects targets it can

 

ping and adds them to the IP Address tab automatically. Ping does not guarantee a

 

response. When you start the discovery process, these addresses are included.

 

 

4

If a device was not found during an IP scan, enter an IP address by clicking the IP

 

Addresses tab and then the Add Address button.

 

If necessary, enter a user name and password for the device.

 

 

5

Click the Start Discovery button.

 

 

6

Run Get Details. See Get Details takes some time. You might want to perform this

 

process when the network and the managed elements are not busy. Click Tools >

 

Storage Essentials > Home > Discovery > Details.

 

 

Keep in mind the following:

If you started a CIM Extension on a Sun Solaris host with the ./start -users command, the user name provided in the command must be used to discover the host. For example, if you use

./start -users myname:yourname (where myname and yourname are valid UNIX accounts) to start the CIM Extension, myname or yourname and its password must be used to discover the host.

If you try to discover a Solaris host with multiple IP address, the management server picks only one IP address for discovery.

To access a Windows-based device, prefix the user name with domain_name\, as shown in the following example. This is required by the Windows login mechanism.

IMPORTANT: If you want to use the HP SIM discovery mechanism, you must provide HP SIM with the credentials required by HP SE for HP SE to be successful.

domain_name\username

where

domain_name is the domain name of the element

username is the name of the account used to access that element

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