HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

Automatic event handling
▲ Support for new ProLiant WBEM indications Therefore, any event collection containing event type
criteria having an SNMP trap that correlates to a WBEM indication will be upgraded and the WBEM
indications will be selected.
License Manager
• Extended support for SSH and CLP to include iLO 2 specific extensions.
• Added license transfer with iLO 2 using the License Manager menu functions in the Graphical User
Interface (GUI).
• Added a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for input of SSH credentials.
Navigation
• The tool search feature provides a quick way to find a tool by entering text (often less than a single
word) that is used to search and filter, textually, based on tool names, tool locations in the HP SIM
cascading menu structure, and tool descriptions.
• The Quick Launch menu provides single click access to frequently used tools and can be customized
to select which tools are displayed in the menu.
• Go back to link that returns you to the last viewed collection or tool, including the System Page.
• You can maximize the workspace so that the System Status overview, Search, System and Event
Collections panels, and the HP SIM menus are collapsed, and the banner is minimized. You can also
restore the workspace to the default size with a single click.
Task Wizard
• Improved performance.
• Added ability to select target systems using a search tool.
Miscellaneous features
• You can search software and firmware installed on HP-UX systems.
• Property pages are implemented for HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server
2003/2008 and for OpenVMS providers. HP-UX Property pages have been updated to reflect new
HP-UX providers.
• Support on Property pages for HP-UX 11i.x, Linux Itanium Processor Family (IPF), Windows Server
2003 and 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Longhorn, and OpenVMS.
Product architecture
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) leverages a distributed architecture that is divided into three types of
systems: Central Management Server (CMS), managed systems , and web-browser clients.
The CMS with the managed systems together are called the HP SIM management domain .
Central management server
Each management domain has a single CMS. The CMS is the system in the management domain that
executes the HP SIM software and initiates all central operations within the domain. In addition to the HP
SIM software, the CMS maintains a database for storage of persistent objects that can reside locally or on
a separate system. Typically, applications for the multiple-system aware (MSA) tools also reside on the CMS.
However, these applications are not required to reside on the CMS. They can reside anywhere on the
network.
Because the CMS is a system within the management environment, it manages itself as part of the domain.
You can add the CMS as a managed system within another management domain if you want to manage
the domain using a separate CMS.
10 Product overview