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

degrades. You can customize polling tasks for specific systems to run at scheduled times. You can also create
new polling tasks with different system or event lists to match your specific requirements.
NOTE: DMI Status polling is supported only on Windows Central Management Servers and target systems.
There are two default polling tasks:
• Software Status Polling. Use Software Status Polling to determine software version update status.
This task is set to run every seven days, on Wednesday at midnight, by default. You can edit the task
and run it at any time. This task performs the following functions:
• Retrieves software and firmware inventory from systems
• Determines the software and firmware update status
• Sorts versions in the database
To access Software Status Polling, select Options→Status Polling→Software Status Polling.
• Hardware Status Polling. Used to track system status. There are two types of Hardware Status Polling
Tasks:
• Hardware Status Polling for Non servers. Used to collect status information for target systems
that are not of a server, cluster, or management processor type. This task is configured to poll
every 10 minutes and at startup by default and does not send status change events.
• Hardware Status Polling for Servers . Used to collect status information for SNMP systems of
type server, cluster, or management processor. This task is configured to poll every five minutes
and at startup by default and sends status change events that can be used set up a notification
task based on the event.
To access Hardware Status Polling, select Options→Status Polling→Hardware Status Polling.
Related procedures
• Hardware status polling
• Software status polling
Related topic
▲ About default polling tasks
Software status polling
The following example describes how to set up a Software Version Status Polling Task that determines whether
managed systems have software that is out of date. This task uses the All Servers list as the default list.
NOTE: One instance of this task is created by default when HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is
installed. It runs on a weekly basis. Create this task only if it has been deleted.
To create a Software Status Polling Task:
1. Select Options→Status Polling→Software Status Polling.
2. Select target systems from the All Systems collection. The default selected is All Systems. See “Creating
a task” for more information.
3. Click Schedule to schedule the task, or click Run Now to run the task immediately. See “Scheduling
a task” for more information on scheduling the task.
Related procedure
▲ Hardware status polling
Related topics
• Status polling
• About default polling tasks
492 Administering systems and events