Web-based System Manager Administration Guide

Adding a Machine to Web-based System Manager

Web-based System Manager identifies machines in the Management Environment by the exact name that you provide when the machine is added to the environment. This means a machine added with both a fully qualified host name, as well as an abbreviation for the fully qualified host name, will be listed twice in the Management Environment, as if they are two different computers.

For example, if your domain name is mycorp.com, you will be able to create a managed machine in the Management Environment called machine_name, as well as machine_name.mycorp.com. To Web-based System Manager, these are two different machines. A warning dialog that informs you another machine has the same first element hostname appears, thus alerting you that both machine_name and machine_name.mycorp.com will be added. If you do not intend to have both machine names in the Management Environment, you can take preventive action.

You can use either of two methods to add a machine to Web-based System Manager:

Console menu:

Select Console in Web-based System Manager application menu.
Select Add.
Select Hosts.

Web-based System Manager Management Environment plug-in:

Select Management Environment in the Navigation Area.
Select Management Environment in Web-based System Manager application menu.
Select New.
Select Hosts.

After you have launched the add dialog, you can add the machine in one of two ways:

Add a single host computer with the option to verify its existence on the network.
Add a list of computers from a file.

Examples

To add a single machine called chocolate.austin.ibm.com:

Select Add the host computer with this name:
Type chocolate.austin.ibm.com in the text field.
Click Add.

The assigned computer name appears in the Navigation Area and Navigation Pane. A message below the progress bar states Successfully added... chocolate.austin.ibm.com.

To add a single machine and verify its existence on the network:

Select Add the host computer with this name:
Type coconut.austin.ibm.com in the text field.
Select Verify that the host is on the network.
Click Add.

The assigned computer name appears in Navigation Area and Navigation Pane. If the host does not exist on the network, a Web-based System Manager error dialog displays, stating that the following host cannot be contacted.

To add a list of machines from a file:

Select Add the host computers listed in this file:
Type the complete file path in the text field, or select Browse and then select file.
Select yes from the confirmation dialog to add a list of machines.

A message below the progress bar indicates which machine is currently being added. After it's complete, a message displays stating Successfully completed. The added computers appear in the Navigation Area and Navigation Pane.