Manual

12 Monitoring systems
Viewing system collections
In HP SIM monitoring systems involves HP SIM polling Insight Management Advisor or firmware
on the managed systems to retrieve status information, and then displays this information as status
icons. There are several types of status that can be displayed, such as Health Status (HW), Software
Versioning Status (SW), or Management Processor status (MP). Other status icons might be added
by plug-ins to HP SIM. These icons enable you to see, at a glance, the state of your systems.
Pages displaying system status
• System lists
There are four system lists page views; table view, icon view, tree view, and picture view (for
racks and enclosures). Common in each view is the system name and system status. To access
the system list pages, select a collection or system from the System and Event Collections panel.
The type of collection or system that you select determines the view that appears.
◦ Table view
The HS column on the system list page displays the overall system health status, which is
determined by the default Hardware Status Polling task and is a roll up of all the status
sources, which can be SNMP, WBEM, HTTP, and cluster status. The legend shows how
many systems in the view are Critical, Major, Minor, Normal, Disabled, and Unknown.
◦ Icon view
The icon view lists the system name of all discovered systems, as well as the system health
status for each system. The legend shows how many systems in the view are Critical,
Major, Minor, Normal, Disabled, and Unknown.
◦ Tree view
The tree view displays the health status icon and the system name for each system in a
tree format.
◦ Picture view
The picture view page for racks and enclosures contains a picture view of the discovered
systems in the rack or enclosure if available. While signed in to HP SIM, placing your
cursor over a server shown in the view displays information on that particular server,
including server blade name, slot number, and the enclosure in which the server is located.
You can also click a component name to display detailed information about the
component.
In all views, you can select the checkbox next to the system name to select a system. You can
select more than one system, or to select an entire collection, select the checkbox, Select
"collection name" itself.
• System pages
On the System Page, System tab, a status icon indicates the overall health status stored in the
database. If system monitoring is suspended, a disabled icon appears in place of the hardware
status icon and software status icon. The System Status section contains more information on
the system status.
You can access the System Page one of the following ways:
◦ Select Tools→System Information→System Page, and then select a target system.
◦ Click the system name in the System Name column on the system table view page.
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