HP Systems Insight Manager 7.3 User Guide

NOTE: If you discover more than 500 systems, HP suggests you change the interval to
something greater than 10 minutes (for example, 15 minutes for every 1,000 systems).
• This task collects status information for SNMP, or WBEM systems that are Server, Cluster, or
Management Processor types. By default, this task polls every 5 minutes and at start-up.
NOTE: If you discover more than 500 systems, HP suggests you change the interval to
something greater than 5 minutes (for example, 10 minutes for every 1,000 systems).
• This task runs when a system goes from a disabled state to an enabled state. You could use
this task to get the latest status after a planned maintenance window on a system that was set
to disabled. This should reflect the entire category (inventory, software baseline, and so on)
in the Data Collection report.
• Hardware status polling should reflect the proper status of the Onboard Administrator and
this status must match with the XML reply data.
• This task collects static information from a number of systems that have WBEM, or SNMP
running (for example, serial numbers and model numbers).
• This task runs hardware status polling on systems that are newly discovered. Therefore, you
do not need to wait for the periodic tasks to run before the system has a valid status.
• This task determines software version update status and is set to run every seven days by
default at midnight. You can edit this task or manually run it at any time.
• This task runs the software version tool when a system changes from a disabled state to an
enabled state so that the status of the software loaded on the system is kept current in HP SIM.
• This task checks event configuration on all systems and is scheduled to run every day. The
Weekly Check Event Configuration task can be edited.
Biweekly Data Collection
Use this task to collect data. This task runs on all systems in the Data Collection List collection. The
default schedule sets the task to run every other Saturday at noon.
System Identification
Use this task to gather information about systems such as networking systems. By default, this task
runs once a day. The information is identified and stored in the database.
• Single Sign On and STE support on a managed system
• Type of management protocol on the system (HTTP, SNMP, and WBEM)
• Type and subtype of system (server, storage, switch, router, and so on)
• Product name of the system
• Operating system name and version
• Web Agents running on the system
• Web-based software running on the system (for example, printer management software)
• System associations with management processors (for example, a system and its Remote Insight
board)
• Storage proxies and related storage systems
• Wake-on-LAN information
216 Default system tasks