HP SIM V5.1 User Guide (356920-009, January 2007)

3 Product overview
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is the foundation for HP's unified server-storage management strategy.
It is a multiple operating system, hardware level management product that supports HP ProLiant, Integrity
and HP 9000 servers, HP StorageWorks MSA, EVA, XP arrays, and third-party arrays. Through a single
management view of Microsoft® Windows®, HP-UX 11iv1, HP-UX 11iv2, HP-UX 11iv3, and Red Hat, SuSE
Linux, HP SIM provides the basic management features of system discovery and identification, single event
view, inventory data collection, and reporting. The core HP SIM software uses Web Based Enterprise
Management (WBEM) to deliver the essential capabilities required to manage all HP server platforms.
HP SIM can be extended to provide system management with plug-ins for HP clients, storage, power, and
printer products. Plug-in applications for workload management, capacity management, virtual machine
management, and partition management through the HP Integrity Essentials enable you to pick the value-added
software required to deliver complete lifecycle management for your hardware assets.
Additional resources
For additional resources, go to the HP SIM website at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim.
Related topics
• Features
• What's new?
• Product architecture
• Assistance
• Legal notices
Features
HP SIM management
• Fault management and event handling HP SIM 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 , pager, or Short Message Service (SMS) gateway and enables automatic
execution of scripts or event forwarding to enterprise platforms, such as HP OpenView Network Node
Manager or HP OpenView Operations.
NOTE: Pager support is only for Windows-based CMS.
• Consistent multisystem management HP SIM 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
on each system.
• Two user interfaces HP SIM provides a web browser GUI and a command line interface (CLI) to
make it easy to incorporate HP SIM into your existing management processes.
• Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) indications for HP-UX, Linux, and Storage Management
Initiative Specification (SMI-S) devices HP SIM enables you to subscribe and unsubscribe to WBEM
indications through the GUI. You can also subscribe or unsubscribe to WBEM indications through the
CLI.
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