README - HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with Update 1

If you have a problem running your tools on the CMS because of SSH authentication errors, then run
mxagentconfig -a -n node address of the CMS -u Administrator, or from the GUI, run
Configure→Configure or Repair Agents, and then select the CMS as the target.
Software status polling
Running the Software Status Polling task does not update to the correct status in HP SIM systems list page.
Reidentifying or rediscovering does not change the status.
Storage
The XP24000 disk array supports the XP Snapshot V-Vol feature and XP Thin Provisioning Software, but v1.1
of the Storage Management Information - Specification (SMI-S) provider for XP disk arrays does not. XP
Snapshot V-Vols and XP Thin Provisioning volumes are virtual storage volumes and can be significantly larger
than the physical volumes they are mapped to. The XP SMI-S provider does not provide information to HP
SIM about which volumes are XP Snapshot V-Vols or XP Thin Provisioning volumes. If the XP Snapshot V-Vol
feature or XP Thin Provisioning Software is enabled for an XP24000 disk array, the capacity pie chart in
HP SIM will display incorrect information.
System Page
On fresh install of HP SIM, during the first initial discovery and data collection of storage devices for the first
time, you cannot see the element's System Page. After discovery and data collection are complete, you
can open the System Page. If you discover a large number of devices the first time, the blank System
Page appears more often. After the first discovery and data collection are complete, you will not receive
the blank System Page.
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Links for the partition are not enabled from System Page of the complex when the host name of partition
does not match the partition name. You must make these names the same.
Task
If invalid characters are used when creating the Hardware Status Polling task, an error message appears
with HTML representation of the invalid characters; see the Hardware Status Polling task invalid characters
table for more information on which invalid characters must be replaced by their respective HTML
representation.
Table 2-2 Hardware Status Polling task invalid characters
Replace withInvalid character
""
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&lt;<
&gt;>
&amp;&
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The Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install tool does not work on Windows 2000 target systems. Likewise, the
install portion of the Configure and Repair Agents tool does not work on Windows 2000 systems. If the
Version Control Agent is present on these target systems, then the Install Software and Firmware tool can be
used to distribute agents, Support Packs and other components to Windows 2000 systems.
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Command line tasks that create large amounts of output, for example, an ls -laR /, can cause the DTF to
hang. Therefore, the output from the command line tasks should not exceed 1 MB.
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