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

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HP SIM has a predefined identification task that runs daily, and when new systems are discovered.
However, you can run identification on a system, or collection of systems, at any time from
Options

Identify Systems
.
Data collection
Once a system is iden
tified, data collection is performed on the system. Using the management
protocols identified, detailed inventory information is gathered from the system and stored in the HP
SIM database. HP SIM has a predefined data collection task “Bi Weekly Data Coll
ection” that runs
every two weeks on Saturday at 12:00 am. This default data collection overwrites the default data
collection database entry for each system
.
There are two ways the collected data can be stored. As mentioned above, there is a default da
ta
collection storage for each system in the HP SIM database. The default data collection task, and data
collection that runs after discovery, both overwrite this data. You can keep a history of data
collections for systems. This is useful if you want t
o compare data collected on systems over time. To
perform a historical data collection, select
Options

Data Collection
.
After selecting the systems for the data collection task, the
Data Collection
screen appears. Select
the
Overwrite existing data set (f
or detailed analysis)
if you
w
ant to overwrite the default
data; select
Append new data set (for historical trend analysis)
to create a new data set
that is appended to existing data sets.
Figure 4
Data Collection
Click
Run N
ow
to immedi
ately start the data collection, or click
Schedule
and run the task at a
later time.
Note
: Historical data collection increases the size of the HP SIM database over time. The amount of
time historical data is retained in the database is determined by th
e
RetainHistoricalDataTimeInDays
property in the file