Managing your HP-UX inventory with HP SIM (430146-002, January 2009)

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/etc/opt/mx/config/globalsettings.props. The default value is 90 days.
Managing inventory data
Now that you have discovered the servers you are managing and have performed data collection on
them, HP
SIM provides several mechanisms to view the data.
System Page
The
System Page
for a server displays basic information, like operating system type, version, and
so on. The amount of data provided on the
System Page
varies based on the management
protocols
installed and specific configuration items (storage, partitions, cluster, and so on).
A summary report for the system is available from the
Tools & Links
tab on the
System Page
by
clicking the
Data Collection Report
link under
HP Systems Insight Manager P
ages
section.
Reports
Reporting enables you to view some or all of the data collected for one or more servers. To run a
report, you select the servers, select the attributes you want reported for those servers, and then run
the report.
To create a report
, select
Reports>New Report
. From here, you can create a report and
save it, or you can run the report without saving it.
Figure
5 shows the new report screen.
Figure 5
Create a new report
The area on the left sh
ows the main categories of data that can be reported. The “+” key
expands
each category, which is useful when selecting specific items to report. After you
select an item, the
Run