HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1 User Guide

2 Product overview
HP SIM features
• Automatic discovery
Automatically discovers and identifies systems attached to the network. Use discovery filters
to prevent discovery of unwanted system types.
• Health monitoring
Colored status icons enable you to see at a glance the operational health of your systems,
and quickly drill down to find the failing component if any are not ok.
• 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 or pager, , and enables automatic execution of scripts or event
forwarding to enterprise platforms such as HP Operations Orchestration or HP Network Node
Manager.
NOTE: Pager support is only for Windows-based Central Management Server (CMS).
• Inventory
Performs comprehensive system data collection and enables users to quickly produce detailed
inventory reports for managed systems. Save reports in multiple formats for easy incorporation
into popular reporting packages.
• 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.
• Role-based security
Allows effective delegation of management responsibilities by giving systems administrators
granular control over which management operations users can perform on selected systems.
• Two user interfaces
HP SIM provides the option of a browser-based GUI or a command line interface (CLI) that
enables you to incorporate HP SIM into your existing management processes.
• Customized tools
Simple Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents that enable you to integrate off-the-shelf
or custom command line and web-based applications or scripts into the HP SIM user interface.
Basic concepts
Discovery and identification
HP SIM can automatically discover and identify systems attached to the network using information
from management protocols such as Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Windows
Management Instrumentation (WMI), WBEM, Secure Shell (SSH), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),
HTTP/HTTPs, and WS-MAN. Create discovery tasks to limit discovery to specific network segments
or IP address ranges, or to control the frequency that each task runs. Use discovery filters to prevent
discovery of unwanted system types.
14 Product overview