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JP1 Version 12 JP1/Integrated Management 2 - Manager Configuration Guide


3.1.3 Collecting information from hosts

You can collect host information about specified hosts. Execute this processing immediately after you have registered a host or when information about a host or the installed software has been updated for a reason such as the following:

Once you collect host information, the profile lists are cleared. When the Display/Edit Profiles window is opened after host information has been collected, the most recent profile lists are collected. For this reason, all unapplied profiles in JP1/Base stored on the server will be deleted.

To collect host information from the IM Configuration Management database:

  1. In the IM Configuration Management window, click the Host List or IM Configuration tab.

    The Host List page or the IM Configuration page is displayed.

  2. On the Host List page or the IM Configuration page, in the tree area, select a host.

    If the chosen host has lower hosts, you can also select hosts from the Lower Host Information list that is displayed by clicking the Lower Host Information button. In this case, you can select multiple hosts at the same time.

  3. Use one of the following methods to collect host information:

    • From the menu bar, choose Operation, then Collect Host Information.

    • From the pop-up menu that is displayed by right-clicking, choose Collect Host Information.

    When a confirmation message asking whether you wish to collect information about the selected host or hosts is displayed, choose Yes. Information about the selected host or hosts is collected. If host information is collected while a remote-monitoring log file trap or remote-monitoring event log trap is running on the selected host, the host information is collected based on the your response to the confirmation message. If host information is to be collected but no information can be obtained from the monitored host, remote monitoring stops. Similarly, if the OS name differs from the one that had been collected previously, remote monitoring stops.

    In the case of multiple hosts, you can check the execution results in the Execution Results window.

    Because JP1/Base cannot be installed on hosts running VMware ESX or Hitachi Compute Blade logical partitioning feature, choosing Collect Host Information on such hosts results in an error. For a remote host whose host information contains the remote communication type, until the remote host is registered in the system hierarchy (IM configuration), the manager attempts to collect host information from JP1/Base as well as from the remote host. This means that if you choose Collect Host Information for a host on which JP1/Base is not installed and which is not registered in the system hierarchy (IM configuration), a warning is output because the manager cannot connect to JP1/Base on the target host.

You can use the Host List page to check a host's status after host information has been collected. If collection of a host's information has failed, the host icon is displayed in gray in the tree area on the Host List page. To display the detailed information, click the Basic Information button in the node information display area on the Host List page.