HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

NOTE: DMI Status polling is supported only on a Windows CMS and target systems.
The following default polling tasks exist:
• Software Status Polling. Used 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:
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. It does not send status change events.
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• 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 5 minutes and
at startup by default. It 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 example
• Software status polling example
Related topic
▲ About default system functions
Software status polling example
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managed systems have software that is out of date.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 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 about scheduling the task.
Related procedure
▲ Hardware status polling example
Related topics
• Status polling
• About default system functions
Hardware status polling example
HP SIM tracks system health status using a predefined hardware status polling task. This task polls for updates
on hardware status through the different protocols. The following example describes how to set up a task to
poll systems using hardware status polling.
570 Administering systems and events