HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Release Notes *431828-005* Printed in the US HP Part Number: 431828-005 Published: January 2009 Edition: 5.
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Table of Contents 1 Overview..................................................................................................5 2 Features and What's New ..........................................................................6 Features.................................................................................................................................................6 HP SIM management..............................................................................................................
1 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.
2 Features and What's New 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.
Reporting • Data collection and inventory reports HP SIM performs comprehensive system data collection and enables you to quickly produce detailed inventory reports for managed systems. Reports can be generated in HTML, XML, or CSV format. Data collection and reporting has been added for HP Superdome systems and other cellular complexes.
• HP System Management Homepage The HP System Management Homepage provides a consolidated interface for single-system management. By aggregating the data from HP web-based agents and management utilities, the HP System Management Homepage provides a common, easy-to-use interface that displays hardware fault and status monitoring, performance data, system thresholds, diagnostics, and software version control for an individual server.
• HP Storage Essentials HP is changing the economics of managing the data center. HP Storage Essentials is the first open, standards-based suite of storage products designed to integrate into HP SIM. See http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/esuite/index.html for more information about HP Storage Essentials.
3 Documentation All HP Systems Insight Manager documentation is available on the Web and bundled with the software. • HP Systems Insight Manager Installation and Configuration Guide for Windows This document provides information about installing and getting started using HP Systems Insight Manager on Windows and includes an introduction to basic concepts, definitions, and functionality associated with HP Systems Insight Manager. See the HP SIM 5.
