Managing your infrastructure from chip to the business service

• Tool groups—Provide separate policy and tool groups to manage HP SIM and IM Agent nodes.
The HP SIM tool group provides tools to add nodes to be managed by HP SIM, execute tools on HP
SIM – managed nodes, launching the HP SIM Insight Management agent web interface, and
Remote Insight Lights-Out (RILOE) web interface.
• Policy groups—Contain policies for monitoring the HP SIM and IM Agent services,
clearing/acknowledging events, and IM agent SNMP trap interpretation.
• Contextual launch to HPSIM system page—Enables users to initiate contextual launch of the HPSIM
CMS System page from HPOM messages.
• Web Interface tools—Provides tools to launch the web interface for HPSIM, IM Agent, and
Integrated Lights-Out (iLO).
Service views
A Service View in Operations Manager is a visualization of a service structure into which events can
be mapped. It enables you to view the objects that make up the environment to better determine the
effect of problems or predict potential problems. Component services are color-coded according to
status. The SIM SPI provides separate service views for HP SIM and the IM Agent services under the
Systems Infrastructure service tree.
The following HP SIM and IM Agent services (or Processes) are discovered and mapped into service
views:
• HP SIM central management server and its managed nodes
• IM Agents:
– System Management Homepage agent
– NIC agent
– Server agent
– Storage agent
– iLO Advanced
– Version control agent
When “Add HP SIM node to node group” is executed on a node, the HP SIM and IM Agent
discovery policies are deployed to the node and run immediately. When HP SIM is discovered, the
HP SIM service monitoring policies are automatically deployed. When the IM Agents are discovered,
their corresponding monitoring policy is automatically deployed to the node. Discovery also results in
a service view being added to the Systems Infrastructure service tree in HP OM.