HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

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• HP SIM determines device

health status

by polling the SMI-S providers of storage systems. If HP Storage

Essentials discovers a storage array, storage switch, or tape library by a method other than SMI-S,

HP SIM lists the device's status as Unknown.

• System properties edited in HP SIM are not transferred to HP Storage Essentials.

• The Suspend or Resume Monitoring command has no effect on HP Storage Essentials systems.

• HP Storage Essentials events are handled as follows:

HP Storage Essentials events are available in the Events tab of the System Page for all storage

systems.

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• A Storage Essentials collection is added to the list of shared collections under Events in the

System and Event Collections panel.

• When an event is cleared in HP SIM, it is also cleared in HP Storage Essentials.

• Deleting an event in HP SIM deletes the same event in HP Storage Essentials.

• When an event is cleared in HP Storage Essentials, it is also cleared in HP SIM.

• Deleting an event in HP Storage Essentials does

not

delete the event in HP SIM.

• Comments that are added to events in HP SIM are

not

transferred to HP Storage Essentials.

• A link in the Event Details section enables you to view the corresponding event details in HP

Storage Essentials.

• The Automatic tab on the Discovery page shows the status of the HP Storage Essentials discovery

process and provides a link to the HP Storage Essentials discovery log.

• The General Settings for All Discoveries section in the Automatic tab on the Discovery page

includes a link to the HP Storage Essentials global application settings configuration page.

• When HP Storage Essentials is installed, a Toolbox for Storage Essentials tools is added to the Toolbox es

tab of the Users and Authorizations page.

• The Users and Authorizations tabs are updated with instructions and links for managing user security

when HP SIM and HP Storage Essentials are used together.

• If HP Storage Essentials detects a device manager URL for a system, the URL is added to the HP SIM

Tools & Links page in the System Web Application Pages section.

• If HP SIM and HP Storage Essentials are installed on the same computer, you cannot delete the HP

Storage Essentials management station from HP SIM.

• The HP SIM First Time Wizard and the Discovery page are updated with information about HP Storage

Essentials licensing.

NOTE: For additional information about HP Storage Essentials, see your HP Storage Essentials

documentation.