Getting started with HP SIM 5.3 in a smaller Windows environment (417431-005, January 2008)

2. Add each SMI CIMOM IP address to the System Automatic Discovery task or to the Creating
a New Discovery task. See the HP SIM User Guide at http://docs.hp.com/en/index.html
for
more information.
HP SIM discovers the storage systems after the next automatic discovery task. If you want to discover
your storage systems immediately, run the discovery task as described in the “Running a Discovery
Task” section of the HP SIM User Guide at http://docs.hp.com/en/index.html
.
Summary
After you complete the HP SIM installation, the core capabilities of the software enables you to
automatically discover systems, monitor system health, deploy system software and firmware updates,
and set up paging or e-mail notifications for proactive notification of potential problems.
As your needs grow, you can easily integrate value added plug-ins into the base CMS to deliver
management across the server and storage lifecycle. These plug-ins include applications for rapid
deployment, vulnerability and patch management, virtual machine management partition
management, performance management, and others. You can also customize your management
platform with off-the-shelf or internally developed scripts and applications.
Finally, you can further extend the capabilities of HP SIM with plug-ins for HP clients, storage, power,
and printer products, enabling management of your entire HP infrastructure.