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System Inventory Manager (SIM) Overview
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System Inventory Manager (SIM) Overview
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3.3.1 What is System Inventory Manager?
3.3.2 How to invoke SIM
3.3.1 What is System Inventory Manager?
The SIM application is a tool that allows you to easily collect, store and manage inventory
and configuration information for the Compute Nodes in the HP-UX Itanium 2 cluster. The
SIM GUI in conjunction with the underlying Desktop Management Interface (DMI) provides
a easy web-based interface.
Some of the key features of the tool are:
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You design the grouping of devices in the way that best suits your
environment.
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The GUI's buttons, tabs and menus provide quick access to:
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defining devices, and groups
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adding, configuring, and deleting devices as well as
groups, schedules and filters
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collecting data on a scheduled basis or on demand
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filtering of collected data to isolate specific data
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comparing collected inventory data for devices and
snapshots
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reviewing the wealth of information that is contained in
collected snapshots in an easy-to-use format
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viewing group, device, schedule, snapshot and filter
properties
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The scheduling facility allows you to define when SIM retrieves inventory
information, dynamically and on pre-determined schedules that suit your
needs. Data can be collected for individual devices and for each defined
group.