HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

• Large Business Varying combination of internal disks, RAID, and some SAN or NAS
• Enterprise Business Mostly large SAN or NAS, but some RAID and internal disks might be present
HP SIM can retrieve the information for the internal disk drives for monitored systems. This does not mean
that HP SIM actively manages and configures each system previously indicated.
HP SIM can:
• Discover and identify storage systems that are directly attached to a server.
• Discover and identify storage systems that are on the network, including tape libraries.
• Discover and identify HP StorageWorks Command View storage device manager systems.
• Receive storage system events and associate them with the system that generated the event (through
Command View) running on a system, or from a tape library management card.
• Context launch appropriate management application from the context of the event or the context of the
system running the Command View that generated the event.
Storage events
With HP SIM, administrators can monitor inventory and configure and manage hardware resources and the
system software that affects the systems.
HP SIM provides the administrator with a complete overview of the hardware status. Storage events provide
notification that a problem exists that might affect the availability of storage resources, which can affect
system and application availability. HP SIM receives detailed event messages through WBEM events or
SNMP traps. These events identify the system and the affected disk and provide an error number for looking
up details and a description of the problem. The event details also contain links to the Command View server
that generated the event. HP SIM associates a disk or RAID subsystem with the controller managing these
drives for internal storage.
Storage inventory details
HP SIM inventory retrieves and stores the following information from internal disk drives:
• Disk
Total number of disk slots•
• Number of used slots
• Slot ID
• The type of disk in slot
• Disk manufacturer
• Disk model
• Disk part number
• Disk characteristics
• Firmware version
• Controller ID that is managing this disk
• Controller details
Total number of controllers•
• Controller type
• Controller manufacturer
• Model number
• Part number
• Slot ID that this card is installed in
274 Storage integration