HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

NOTE: The iCAP provider is available on HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31), HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) and HP-UX
11i v1 (11.11) which can only be installed on HP 9000 and Integrity servers.
• Added Horizontal discovery of node partitions (nPars) for cell-based Integrity servers or HP 9000 servers.
• Added Horizontal discovery of virtual partitions (vPars) for cell-based HP-UX 9000 servers or
procedure-based HP-UX 9000 servers.
• Added Data collection of software/firmware (sw/fw) baseline name and version for systems that have
a Version Control Agent (VCA) installed.
Automatic event handling
• Support for new ProLiant WBEM indications Therefore, any event collection containing event type
criteria having an SNMP trap that correlates to a WBEM indication will be upgraded and the WBEM
indications will be selected.
• User pager information can be specified when creating or managing automatic event handling tasks.
License Manager
• Extended support for SSH and CLP to include iLO 2 specific extensions.
• Added license transfer with iLO 2 using the License Manager menu functions in the Graphical User
Interface (GUI).
• Added a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for input of SSH credentials.
Reporting
• New HP Version Control Agent report that displays baseline information.
• Added data collection of software/firmware (sw/fw) baseline name and version for systems that have
a Version Control Agent (VCA) installed.
Navigation
• The tool search feature provides a quick way to find a tool by entering text (often less than a single
word) that is used to search and filter, textually, based on tool names, tool locations in the HP SIM
cascading menu structure, and tool descriptions.
• The Quick Launch menu provides single click access to frequently used tools and can be customized
to select which tools are displayed in the menu.
• Go back to link that returns you to the last viewed collection or tool, including the System Page.
• You can maximize the workspace so that the System Status overview, Search, System and Event
Collections panels, and the HP SIM menus are collapsed, and the banner is minimized. You can also
restore the workspace to the default size with a single click.
Task Wizard
• Improved performance.
• Added ability to select target systems using a search tool.
Miscellaneous features
• You can search software and firmware installed on HP-UX systems.
• Property pages are implemented for HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server
2003/2008 and for OpenVMS providers. HP-UX Property pages have been updated to reflect new
HP-UX providers.
• Support on Property pages for HP-UX 11i.x, Linux Itanium Processor Family (IPF), Windows Server
2003 and 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, and OpenVMS.
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