HP SIM V5.1 User Guide (356920-009, January 2007)

Systems
A system collection logically groups systems into a group based on information in the HP SIM database .
After a collection is defined, you can display the results in the workspace or associate it with a management
task .
In addition to using the collections provided by HP SIM, you can create, edit, or delete your own collections.
Collections must follow specific naming conventions. See “Collection naming conventions” for more information
on naming collections.
Collections can be used to organize large numbers of systems into smaller, more meaningful groups. For
example, your organization might have five system administrators who are responsible for 100 different
systems in six different buildings. You can create a collection for each administrator that includes only his
or her systems or you can create a collection for each building that includes only the systems located in a
particular building.
Events
An event collection logically groups other event collections into a collection based on information in the HP
SIM database. After a collection is defined, you can display the results in the workspace or associate it with
a management task.
Related procedures
• Customizing system or cluster collections
• Customizing event collections
Related topics
• Monitoring systems, clusters, and events
• Navigating the tree view
• Viewing the System Overview page
• System types
Viewing the System Overview page
Click System Overview in the System and Event Collections panel to view the current system health
status and uncleared event status. This page does not automatically refresh, but you can refresh the data by
clicking the Last Update link at the bottom of the page.
Health Status
Contains the health status of all systems discovered by HP SIM and is the aggregate status of all the status
sources, which can be SNMP, Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), Desktop Management Task
Force (DMTF), and HTTP. Systems are grouped by their status condition and type . Each number in a column
is a hyperlink to a subset of system status collections that belong to this Health Status collection.
Uncleared Event Status
Lists the number of uncleared events that have a Critical, Major, Minor, Warning, Normal, or Informational
severity. Events are grouped by their severity and system type. Each number in a column is a hyperlink to a
list of systems that have that particular health status.
Both displays are sorted using the following system categories:
• Servers. HP servers with HP Insight Management Agents
• Clusters. Groups of systems, typically servers
• Clients. Workstations, portables, and desktops
• Networking. Routers, switches, repeaters, or remote access products
• Printers.
• Other. Remote Insight boards, third-party systems that do not fit the servers, clusters, clients, or other
networking categories, such as racks , enclosures , or remote management processors
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