HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

11 Managing with tasks
HP Systems Insight Manager (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 you created
• 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
NOTE: 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.
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