Systems Insight Manager 6.1 User Guide

15 Systems Insight Manager tools
Target selection
Targets are systems that a tool acts upon. Targets can be single systems, collections, or groups of systems
that are chosen just for the task at hand. You can select the targets either before or after selecting the tool.
You can verify and modify the selection using the task wizard.
After the targets are verified, they appear in the title area of the tool.
NOTE: Some tools cannot work on multiple systems. In this case, a warning is displayed that states you
can select only an individual system.
See the HP Systems Insight Manager online help for more information on the task wizard.
Scheduling tools
The following options are available when scheduling tools to run:
• Periodically Select from intervals of minutes, hours, days, weeks, or months. With periodic scheduling,
you can configure the task to run until a certain date and time or to execute only a set number of times.
Periodic scheduling allows time filters to be applied. These filters specify the hours of the day when a
scheduled task can operate.
NOTE: If you want to schedule a task to run once a month on the 31st of the month and the month
has only 30 days, the task will run on the 1st day of the following month.
• Once Specify the date and time the task is to run.
• When new systems or events are added to the collection This option is only available if you select a
Collection of Systems or Events as your target. The task runs only when new systems or events meet
the collection criteria. You can also apply a time filter to this type of scheduling.
• When systems or events are removed form the collection This option is almost identical to the previous
option, except that the task runs only when systems contained in the Collection of Systems or Events
no longer meet the collection criteria. A time filter can be applied to this type of scheduling.
• Not Scheduled This option specifies that the task runs only when manually executed by a user with
appropriate privileges. This task never runs automatically. Tasks can be manually run from the All
Scheduled Tasks page or the CLI.
Managing with tasks
Systems Insight Manager enables you to manage systems and events by scheduling and executing tasks.
Tasks are actions performed using an Systems Insight Manager tool . Task instances are an executed single
instance of a task .
Users can:
• Create a variation of a task
• Schedule a task
• Modify a task
• Delete a task
• Stop an executing task
• Track task status
Task information is available by selecting one of the following:
• Tasks & Logs→View All Scheduled Tasks
• Tasks & Logs→View Task Results
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