HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

5. (Optional) Specify MIB variable object identifier by clicking Retrieve from MIB. The Retrieve from
MIB section appears.
You might need to do this action if you have systems that return the same system object identifier that
you would like to classify as different products based on some SNMP variable that returns a different
value for each class. For example, if you have Windows NT servers from different vendors that return
the same Windows NT system object identifier, you can specify rules using the Windows NT system
object identifier as the system object identifier and a vendor-specific MIB variable and value combination
to create separate rules for each vendor.
a. Click the down arrow in the MIB definition file name box to select the MIB definition file.
b. Click the down arrow in the MIB variable name box to select the MIB variable name.
c. Click OK to close the Retrieve from MIB section, and complete the MIB variable object identifier
information.
6. Select the Object value by clicking Retrieve from system. The Retrieve from system section appears.
a. Enter the Object identifier, Community string, and Target hostname or IP address.
b. Click Get response to view the Response SNMP data type and the Response value.
c. Click OK to close the Retrieve from system section, and place the information in the Object
value field.
7. Select the Object value Data type by clicking the down arrow and selecting either string or integer.
8. Select the Object value Compare rule by clicking the down arrow.
9. Enter a Priority (applies only if there is more than one rule with the same system object identifier).
10. In the System type field, click the down arrow, and then select the system type.
11. In the Subtype field, click the down arrow, and then select the system subtype.
12. In the Product name field, enter the product name for the new rule.
13. In the Custom management page field, enter a URL. The URL displays this web page as a system link
on the System Page of systems identified using this rule. Enter the special keywords $ipaddress and
$hostname anywhere in this URL. They are replaced by the actual IP address or host name of the
system when the link is placed on the System Page.
14. Click Launch to verify that you can browse to the URL.
15. Click OK to save the new rule, or click Cancel to cancel all changes and close the New rule section.
Installing and configuring version control
In HP SIM, the software status indicates both the availability of software updates and how critical they are.
If HP VCA is installed on the system, clicking the software status icon for that system displays HP Version
Control Agent Software Inventory page.
To update managed servers with the most current software, HP SIM provides software update capabilities
that use the HP VCA and HP VCRM .
For Windows operating systems, install the HP Insight Management Agent 5.40 or later to obtain any
inventory data. For Linux operating systems, install HP Server Management Application and Agents (hpasm
RPM) 7.00 or later to obtain any inventory data. Install the current version that is in the same HP ProLiant
and Integrity Support Pack as HP VCA.
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