HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide
3 Product overview
HP SIM is the foundation for the HP unified server-storage management strategy. HP SIM is a hardware-level
management product that supports multiple operating systems on HP ProLiant, Integrity and HP 9000 servers,
HP StorageWorks MSA, EVA, XP arrays, and third-party arrays. Through a single management view of
Microsoft® Windows®, HP-UX 11iv1, HP-UX 11iv2, HP-UX 11iv3, and Red Hat, and SuSE Linux, HP SIM
provides the basic management features of:
• System discovery and identification
• Single-event view
• Inventory data collection
• Reporting
The core HP SIM software uses WBEM to deliver the essential capabilities required to manage all HP server
platforms.
HP SIM can provide systems management with plug-ins for HP clients, storage, power, and printer products.
Using HP Integrity Essentials you can choose plug-in applications that deliver complete lifecycle management
for your hardware assets:
• Workload management
• Capacity management
• Virtual machine management
• Partition management
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Features
HP SIM management
• Fault management and event handling HP SIM provides proactive notification of actual or impending
component failure alerts. Automatic Event Handling enables you to configure actions to notify appropriate
users of failures through e-mail , pager, or SMS gateway , and enables automatic execution of scripts
or event forwarding to enterprise platforms, such as HP OpenView Network Node Manager or HP
OpenVMS Systems.
NOTE: Pager support is only for Windows-based
CMS
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• Consistent multisystem management HP SIM initiates a task on multiple systems or nodes from a
single command on the CMS. This functionality eliminates the need for tedious, one-at-a-time operations
performed on each system.
• Two user interfaces HP SIM provides the option of a browser-based GUI or a CLI that enables you
to incorporate HP SIM into your existing management processes.
• WBEM indications for HP-UX, Linux, and SMI-S devices HP SIM enables you to use the GUI or CLI to
subscribe and unsubscribe to WBEM indications.
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