Owner manual
Table Of Contents
- Systems Insight Manager 7.0 User Guide
- Table of Contents
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Setting up HP SIM
- 3 Setting up managed systems
- 4 Credentials
- 5 WMI Mapper Proxy
- 6 Discovery
- 7 Manage Communications
- 8 Automatic event handling
- 9 Users and Authorizations
- 10 Managed environment
- Part III HP SIM basic features
- 11 Basic and advanced searches
- 12 Monitoring systems
- 13 Event management
- 14 Reporting in HP SIM
- 15 HP SIM tools
- Part IV HP SIM advanced features
- 16 Collections in HP SIM
- 17 HP SIM custom tools
- 18 Federated Search
- 19 CMS reconfigure tools
- 20 Understanding HP SIM security
- 21 Privilege elevation
- 22 Contract and warranty
- 23 License Manager
- 24 Storage integration using SMI-S
- 25 Managing MSCS clusters
- 26 HP SIM Audit log
- 27 HP Version Control and HP SIM
- 28 Compiling and customizing MIBs
- A Important Notes
- System and object names must be unique
- Setting the Primary DNS Suffix for the CMS
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities menu options not available
- Virtual machine guest memory reservation size
- Insight Remote Support Advanced compatibility
- Database firewall settings
- Annotating the portal UI
- Security bulletins
- Validating RPM signatures
- Central Management Server
- Complex systems displaying inconsistency with the number of nPars within the complex
- Configure or Repair Agents
- Data collection reports
- B Troubleshooting
- Authentication
- Browser
- Central Management Server
- Complex
- Configure or Repair Agents
- Container View
- Credentials
- Data Collection
- Database
- Discovery
- iLO
- Linux servers
- Event
- Host name
- HP Insight Control power management
- Insight Control virtual machine management
- HP Smart Update Manager
- Systems Insight Manager
- Identification
- Installation
- License Manager
- Locale
- Managed Environment
- HP MIBs
- Onboard Administrator
- OpenSSH
- Performance
- Ports used by HP SIM.
- Privilege elevation
- Property pages
- Reporting
- Security
- Sign-in
- SNMP settings
- SSH communication
- System Page
- System status
- Target selection wizard
- Tasks
- Tools
- Upgrade
- UUID
- Virtual identifiers
- Virtual machines
- VMware
- WBEM
- WBEM indications
- WMI Mapper
- C Protocols used by HP SIM
- D Data Collection
- E Default system tasks
- Biweekly Data Collection
- System Identification
- Old Noisy Events
- Events Older Than 90 Days
- Status Polling for Non Servers
- Status Polling for Servers
- Status Polling for Systems No Longer Disabled
- Hardware Status Polling for Superdome 2 Onboard Administrator
- Data Collection
- Hardware Status Polling
- Version Status Polling
- Version Status Polling for Systems no Longer Disabled
- Check Event Configuration
- Status polling
- F Host file extensions
- G System Type Manager rules
- H Custom tool definition files
- I Out-of-the-box MIB support in HP SIM
- J Support and other resources
- Glossary
- Index
24 Storage integration using SMI-S
About storage systems
Storage systems are SAN-attached Fibre Channel disk arrays, switches, tape libraries, or hosts
(with Fibre Channel host bus adapters). HP SIM uses WBEM SMI-S providers to discover and collect
data from storage systems. To view the latest information about HP SIM device support and for
information about obtaining and installing SMI-S providers, see http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim/
providers .
The default collection Storage Systems is listed under Systems by Type in the tree in the System
and Event Collections panel. The following collections are available under Storage Systems:
• All Storage Systems This category includes all devices that were discovered through an SMI-S
provider.
• All Storage Hosts A storage host is a server, desktop, or workstation that is connected by a
HBA to a SAN Storage hosts are also included in the All Servers and All Systems collections.
• All Storage Switches A storage switch is a Fibre Channel switch that is connected to a SAN.
Storage switches are also included in the All Systems and All Network Devices collections.
• All Storage Arrays A storage array is a disk array that uses a Fibre Channel controller to
connect to a SAN. Storage arrays are also included in the All Systems collection.
• All Tape Libraries A tape library is a tape drive that is connected to SAN. Tape libraries are
also included in the All Systems collection.
NOTE: HP SIM cannot manage ESLG3, MSL, and VLS with WBEM because there is no
active CVTL management on these libraries. Only SNMP is supported on these.
• Scalable Storage Solutions
Storage integration using SNMP
Storage devices can be broken down into real-time access and backup systems. Real-time access
systems can be subdivided into internal disks, RAIDs, tape libraries, SANs, and NAS.
Most data centers have combinations of these systems including:
• Small Business Almost entirely internal disk drives
• Medium Business Varying combination of internal disks and RAID systems
• Large Business Varying combination of internal disks, RAID, and some SAN or NAS
• Enterprise Business Mostly large SAN or NAS, but some RAID and internal disks might be
present
HP SIM can retrieve the information for the internal disk drives for monitored systems. This does
not mean that HP SIM actively manages and configures each system previously indicated.
HP SIM can:
• Discover and identify storage systems that are directly attached to a server.
• Discover and identify storage systems that are on the network, including tape libraries.
• Receive storage system events and associate them with the system that generated the event
(through Command View) running on a system, or from a tape library management card.
• Context launch appropriate management application from the context of the event or the
context of the system running the Command View that generated the event.
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