HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

Domain Name Service (DNS) name is displayed, which helps differentiate between two or more systems
that share the same system name. If you click the system name link, the System Page is displayed. See
“System Page” for more information. If you click a system that is a container (rack or enclosure), the picture
view for that object is displayed. See “Navigating the picture view page” for more information. See “About
racks and enclosures” for more information about racks and enclosures.
The System Name column displays systems along with their associations.
Identification
The Identification column includes status information on the state of an identification process . Identification
attempts to determine what the system type is. what management protocol a system supports, using credentials
from the Global Protocol Settings page, and attempts to determine the operating system and version
loaded, along with other basic attributes about the system. Finally, it determines if the system is associated
with another system. The status in this column is a roll-up of the status of all available protocols. The statuses
are analyzed based on the status itself, the system type, the system operating system, and instrumentation
options. There are no status icons for systems that cannot have a status, such as, complexes, enclosures, and
racks. The identification status is updated each time an identification task runs.
Events
The Events column indicates if the CMS can receive events from the target systems. This status considers
the setting of SNMP traps and WBEM indications.
NOTE: For HP-UX, if sending a package to test if the CMS name or IP address exists on the managed
systems does not work, then testing sending trap destinations is not supported.
NOTE: The informational icon is displayed if the Daily Check Event Configuration task has not run or
if the system does not support events.
Run Tools
The Run Tools column indicates if the CMS can run tools locally on target systems. For example, System
Management Homepage (SMH). Communication issues in this column usually relate to security and trust
relationships. See “Setting up trust relationships” for more information about setting up trust relationships.
Version Control
The Version Control column indicates the availability of the software and firmware inventory data for target
systems. The status is collected and stored during data collection.
System Type
This column displays the system type, for example, Server or Desktop. The Unmanaged system type indicates
systems that have no management protocol that HP SIM can detect, for example, no Simple Network
Management Protocol , Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), Desktop Management Interface (DMI),
or Secure Shell (SSH). The Unknown system type indicates that none of the built-in or System Type Manager
(STM)-based tasks could identify the system. However, some management protocol was detected on the
system. See “System types” for more information about system types. See “Managing system types” for more
information about STM tasks.
OS Name
The operating system of the target systems.
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