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Discover virtual appliances

The last step in the new NIM Server setup is to collect inventory from IBM System Director on

this NIM Server in order to discover the virtual appliances imported earlier:

smcli collectinv -n <nim_server_name> -p "All Inventory"

After succesfully collecting the inventory, the Image repository should show up in the

VMControl Virtual Appliances tab (System Configuration  VMControl  Virtual

Appliances). The name of your image repository will be the name of your new NIM Server.

3.3.4 Effective migration

This section provides migration guidance.

Discovery, Request Access and collect inventory in HMC

The next logic step in our scenario is to discover the Hardware Management Console on the

IBM Systems Director Server. When you discover HMC devices with IBM Systems Director, it

is a good idea for security and audit reasons to create a special user on the HMC, which IBM

Systems Director uses for connectivity.

For example, if you have an HMC that manages many POWER servers, and you do not want

to discover all of them into IBM Systems Director, then you can add a user and assign roles to

it. These roles will allow your user to manage only the systems you granted access to.

For help on how to create roles for managed resources, you can use section 5.2.3 in

Hardware Management Console V7 Handbook, SG24-7491.

To create users on the HMC through which Systems Director will manage the resources,

again see section 5.2.3 in Hardware Management Console V7 Handbook, SG24-7491.

Discovery

The discovery process is not disruptive. It just interrogates the system using various methods

and protocols and as a result it adds the HMC in IBM Systems Director’s database.

To discover the HMC into Systems Directo,r use the following command:

smcli discover -i <HMC_ip_address> -t OperatingSystem

Request access

After the discovery completes successfully, Systems Director cannot access this HMC

because the credentials to authenticate have not been provided. The next step is to request

access using the user you created in the previous section.

To request access through the command line interface, use the following command:

smcli accesssys -u hscdir -p <hscdir_password> <hmc_system_name>

Note1: This method of accessing a system presents a security risk, because the

credentials might be recorded in the shell or other operating system areas.

Note2: After discovering and providing access to the HMC, you will see only the logical

partitions. Operating systems must be discovered and accessed separately.