HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

12 Managing with tasks
HP SIM enables you to manage systems and events by scheduling and executing tasks. Tasks are actions
performed using an HP SIM 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
HP SIM provides system-delivered (default) tasks. These tasks can be disabled or have their schedules modified
but they cannot be removed or reassigned to another user. HP SIM requires these tasks to provide a complete
picture of the systems being monitored.
For more information about user privileges and configuration rights, see “Users and authorizations”.
Related procedures
• Creating a task
• Scheduling a task
• Running a scheduled task
• Stopping a task
• Deleting task results
• Printing reports
• Editing a scheduled task
• Deleting a scheduled task
• Viewing task results
Related topics
• About default system functions
• Navigating the All Scheduled Tasks page
• Applying a time filter
• Task status types
About default system functions
Polling tasks track the health status of systems in associated collections. Hardware status polling must occur
periodically to determine when systems go offline or when hardware degrades. You can customize polling
tasks for specific systems to run at scheduled times. You can also create polling tasks with different collections
to meet your needs.
You can configure polling tasks to take place based on the receipt of an event. Event polling tasks are
associated with event collections. For example, you might set up a hardware status polling task for when
traps are received from a system.
When a polling task is set up to run as the result of a change in an event collection, the polling task is applied
to all systems generating events that match the given collection.
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