HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Release Notes

• HP Storage Essentials HP is changing the economics of managing the data center. HP Storage
Essentials is the first open, standards-based suite of storage products designed to integrate into HP SIM.
See http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/esuite/index.html for more information
about HP Storage Essentials.
• HP Insight Power Manager HP Insight Power Manager (IPM) is an integrated power-monitoring and
management application that provides centralized control of server power consumption and thermal
output at the data center level. It extends the capacity of data centers by enabling the user to control
the amount of power and cooling required for ProLiant servers. Built on ProLiant Power Regulator
technology, IPM extends new server energy instrumentation levers into HP SIM for greater Unified
Infrastructure Management.
• Support for HP-UX Serviceguard clusters HP SIM recognizes HP-UX Serviceguard clusters and displays
them in the GUI. HP Serviceguard Manager opens when you click a Serviceguard cluster in a search
list and provides information on the clusters.
What's new?
• Support for display of IPv6 addresses HP SIM can display IPv6 address on the System page and
data collection reports for the systems that are IPv6 enabled.
• Improved Linux identification HP SIM uses SSH to gather basic system hardware information. Therefore,
Linux is better identified because SSH gathers the serial number, product name, and UUID information
• Improved discovery and identification of ESX hosts HP SIM identifies ESX hosts, as a system type or
subtype, through SSH identification if every other protocol fails. You must include a working user name
and password pair for all ESX hosts configured in HP SIM.
• Credentials management improvement A new sign-in credential is introduced. This credential can be
used to sign into managed systems and is protocol independent. Each discovery task can have its own
set of credentials, resulting in shorter completion time for the discovery process.
A discovery task can have it's own set of credentials, allowing for different discoveries to use different
sets of credentials without including all possible credentials under global credentials.
• Additional hypervisor support Xen host and guest identification and association.
• DTF enhancements HP SIM uses privilege elevation tools such as su and sudo to run tools on remote
HP-UX, Linux, and ESX systems.
HP SIM provides login to a remote system with one unprivileged user and then elevates the privilege
to run the tools.
Can launch tools on AIX and Solaris.
• Manual discovery Manual discovery is available on the New Disco very section by selecting Discover
a single system. Task results are available for single system discovery.
• License usability enhancements Usability enhancements made to License Manager including:
• Easier view of available licenses
• Enhanced licensing information gathering
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