HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 User Guide

2 Product overview
What's new in Systems Insight Manager 6.0
• Scalability HP Systems Insight Manager can mange up to 10,000 systems (up to 5,000 servers, with
additional 5,000 management processors, VMS, and so on) when using Windows 64-bit.
• Reporting Systems Insight Manager 6.0 introduces enhanced reporting including tables and graphs
for easier access to Systems Insight Manager data.
• Migration New migration tool to transfer settings from a Systems Insight Manager 5.3.x Central
Management Server (CMS) to an Systems Insight Manager 6.0 CMS, and from a Systems Insight
Manager 6.0 CMS to another Systems Insight Manager 6.0 CMS.
• Firmware update Firmware update from Systems Insight Manager integrates with HP SUM and
provides agentless firmware upgrade for management processor and Onboard Administrator.
• Heterogeneous support Discovery and identification of non-HP systems through Systems Insight
Manager. The power cycle, power on, and power off commands are supported. Data collection support
is available for non-HP systems through Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
• Health status Mouseover of health status icons in system list shows which components are contributing
to the status, making it easier to identify the root cause of failures.
Systems Insight Manager 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 Systems Insight Manager 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 Manager 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 Systems Insight Manager 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 Systems Insight Manager provides the option of a browser-based GUI or a
command line interface (CLI) that enables you to incorporate Systems Insight Manager into your existing
management processes.
• Customized tools Simple Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents that allow you to integrate
off-the-shelf or custom command line and web-based applications or scripts into the Systems Insight
Manager user interface.
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