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

12 Tools that extend management
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) provides you with many powerful tools :
• Cluster Monitor. Adds the ability to monitor and manage multi-system MSCS clusters
• Command Line Tools. Command line tools are part of a Distributed Task Facility (DTF) and one of
the tools available in HP SIM to run on single-system aware (SSA) systems
• Custom Tools. Enables you to create and manage custom tools that run on the Central Management
Server (CMS) and on target systems and can reference environment variables set by the tool to access
system or event information
• Device Ping. Enables you to ping one or more systems
• Disk Thresholds. Defines the Normal, Minor, and Major ranges for disk utilization on monitored
nodes and is used to set and remove disk thresholds
• DMI Access. Allows setting the HP SIM Central Management Server (CMS) as the event target on
selected HP-UX systems where DMI has been installed
• HP ProLiant Essentials Server Migration Pack (SMP). Extends the functionality of the HP ProLiant
Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack (VMM) to provide integrated physical-to-virtual (P2V),
virtual-to-virtual (V2V), and virtual-to-physical (V2P) migrations
• Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install. Enables you to install software to managed systems
• Licensing. Provides the ability to manage license keys from HP SIM, including key distribution,
reconciliation, and reporting across Windows platforms
• Management processor tools. After management processors have been discovered, the following
tools are available: system power, system locator, new user, modify user, delete user, LAN access,
LDAP settings, iLO control, firmware update, and deploying SSH public keys
• Management Information Base (MIB) tools. The following tools are available for managing MIBs:
compiling MIBs, editing MIBs, registering and unregistering MIBs, and viewing MIBs
• OpenSSH Install Runs from the Central Management Server (CMS) and installs the OpenSSH service
onto target Windows systems and then runs the mxagentconfig command to complete the configuration
• HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP). Enables you to watch and analyze in
real-time the performance of a monitored server and view recorded data sessions directly from the PMP
repository
• Process Resource Manager (PRM) tools HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) enables the system
administrator to focus the appropriate amount of system resources exactly where the business needs
them
• Property Pages. Enables users to view the Property pages on any WBEM system, including WBEM
properties that help describe the target system on the network, WBEM properties that help determine
the status of the system, and an inventory of the target system based on WBEM properties
• Replicate Agent Settings. Enables HP SIM to retrieve and optionally edit Web Agent configuration
settings from a source system and distribute that configuration remotely to one or more target systems
through their Web Agents
• Serviceguard Clusters Provides a mechanism to view cluster information by running HP Serviceguard
Manager
• SNMP Access. Allows setting the HP SIM Central Management Server (CMS) as the trap target on
selected HP-UX systems
• System Management Homepage. Displays the status of the management software and utilities installed
on the system
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