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Table 3 Health status types (continued)
DescriptionStatus typeStatus icon
The system has a potential problem or is in a state that might become
a problem.
Warning
The system is operating normally. The system is accessible.Normal
The system is suspended, which enables a system to be excluded
from status polling, identification, data collection, and automatic
Disabled
event handling. On the Automatic Discovery page, if you select the
Automatically discover a server blade when its iLO is identified
option, new servers discovered through iLO (for example, no
operating system or IP address known) are shown as disabled until
the system is discovered with an IP address or operating system.
HP SIM cannot obtain management information about the system
using SNMP>. Although no management instrumentation information
Unknown
is available, the system can be pinged. It might have an invalid
community string or security setting, or it might be an IP address that
is no longer associated with a system.
The system might be in a transitional state or a nonerror state.Informational
The system has not been polled by one or more of the polling tasks
since the system was discovered.
No Status
Software status types
The following table describes HP SIM system software status types, which are displayed in the SW
column on the system list page.
Table 4 Software status types
DescriptionStatus typeStatus icon
An update that contains a critical bug fix is available for this system.Major
An update that contains new hardware support or bug fixes is
available for this system.
Minor
All components on the system match the repository.Normal
The system is suspended. No software status is available.Disabled
The CMS could not reach the HP VCA on the system, so the status
of the system is unknown.
Informational
The HP VCA cannot communicate with HP Version Control Repository
Manager (HP VCRM).
Unknown
The Unknown status appears for server systems only under the
following circumstances:
• The HP VCA is not installed on the managed server.
• The HP VCA is installed on a server, but that server does not have
a trust relationship established with HP SIM.
• The operating system on the target server is not supported.
Windows and Linux operating systems are supported.
• The correct version of the agent is not on the target system.
• The target server type brand is not supported (only HP or Compaq
brand servers are supported).
• The target system is not licensed for monitoring by the HP Insight
Performance Management Pack (PMP). The target system must
have the Insight Management Agent 6.20 or later installed.
• PMP reports an indeterminate status for the system.
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