HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

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.
NOTE: HP does not recommend scheduling a polling task based on periodic event collection. The task
would run on the set of systems for each event in the associated collection.
NOTE: If you remove a hardware status polling task, systems continue to be discovered, but the status on
them is not updated. If you remove the Daily System Identification task, you would no longer detect changes
in management on systems.
The following default tasks are available on the View All Scheduled Tasks page:
• Biweekly Data Collection
• Daily Device Identification
• Delete Events Older Than 90 Days
• Hardware Status Polling for Non Servers
• Hardware Status Polling for Servers
• Hardware Status Polling for Systems No Longer Disabled
• Initial Data Collection
• Initial Hardware Status Polling
• Software Version Status Polling
• Software Version Status Polling for Systems no Longer Disabled
Biweekly Data Collection
Use this task to collect data. This task runs on all systems in the Data Collection List collection. The default
schedule sets the task to run every other Saturday at noon.
Daily Device Identification
Use this task to gather information about systems such as networking systems. By default, this task runs once
a day. The information is identified and stored in the database.
• Single Login and Secure Task Execution (STE) support on a managed system
• Type of management protocol on the system (HTTP, SNMP, DMI, and WBEM)
• Type and subtype of system (server, storage, switch, router, and so on)
• Product name of the system
• Operating system name and version
• Web Agents running on the system
• Web-based software running on the system (for example, printer management software)
• System associations with management processors (for example, a system and its Remove Insight board)
• Storage proxies and related storage systems
• Wake-on-LAN information
Delete Events Older Than 90 Days
This task deletes events older than 90 days and can be used to help maintain HP SIM by limiting the total
number of events. By default, this task is disabled. To enable the task:
On the All Scheduled Tasks page and click Enable.
For more information about scheduling tasks, see “Creating a task”.
In some installations there might be high volumes of events. If so, consider using this task and event collections
as a model and create an event collection for events older than 30 days (for example), and then create a
task to delete events older than 30 days.
278 Managing with tasks