README - HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3

1 Product Release Information for Updates to HP SIM 5.3
HP SIM 5.3
• Support for display of IPv6 addresses HP SIM can display IPv6 address on the System page and
data collection reports for the systems that are IPv6 enabled.
• Improved Linux identification HP SIM uses SSH to gather basic system hardware information. Therefore,
Linux is better identified because SSH gathers the serial number, product name, and UUID information
• Improved discovery and identification of ESX hosts HP SIM identifies ESX hosts, as a system type or
subtype, through SSH identification if every other protocol fails. You must include a working user name
and password pair for all ESX hosts configured in HP SIM.
• Credentials management improvement A new sign-in credential is introduced. This credential can be
used to sign into managed systems and is protocol independent. Each discovery task can have its own
set of credentials, resulting in shorter completion time for the discovery process.
A discovery task can have it's own set of credentials, allowing for different discoveries to use different
sets of credentials without including all possible credentials under global credentials.
The Configure or Repair Agents tool has been extended so that it can use the Sign-in credentials
associated with each system instead of one common credential. This enables the tool to successfully
run on a set of systems that do not share a single credential.
• Additional hypervisor support Xen host and guest identification and association.
• DTF enhancements HP SIM uses privilege elevation tools such as su and sudo to run tools on remote
HP-UX, Linux, and ESX systems.
HP SIM provides login to a remote system with one unprivileged user and then elevates the privilege
to run the tools.
Can launch tools on AIX and Solaris.
• Manual discovery Manual discovery is available on the New Disco very section by selecting Discover
a single system. Task results are available for single system discovery.
• License usability enhancements Usability enhancements made to License Manager including:
• Easier view of available licenses
• Enhanced licensing information gathering
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