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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Changes to HP Systems Insight Manager Storage Functionality when HP Storage Essentials is Installed

»Table of Contents
»Index
»Notices
»Introduction
»Product Overview
»Getting Started
»Discovery and Identification
»Users and Authorizations
»Networking and Security
»Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events
»Storage Integration
»Storage Integration Using SMI-S
»Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager with Storage Systems
»Viewing Storage Systems
»Viewing Storage System Reports
»Viewing Storage Array Capacity
Changes to HP Systems Insight Manager Storage Functionality when HP Storage Essentials is Installed
»Storage Integration Using SNMP
»Managing with Tasks
»Tools that Extend Management
»Partner Applications
»Reporting
»Administering Systems and Events
»Troubleshooting
»Reference Information
»Printable version
»Glossary
»Using Help
» Related Topics

If HP Storage Essentials is installed, the following changes occur within HP Systems Insight Manager:

  • HP Storage Essentials items are added to the Tools, Deploy, Diagnose, Optimize, Reports, Tasks & Logs, and Options menus. Refer to your HP Storage Essentials documentation for details about these menu items.

  • A shared collection called Storage Essentials Systems is added to the Systems & Events panel.

  • The following collections are included under Storage Essentials Systems: All SE Systems, SE Servers, SE Switches, SE Storage Arrays, SE Tape Libraries, and SE Cluster Nodes.

  • If a storage system is managed by HP Storage Essentials, storage-specific details do not appear in its identity tab, and an SE System Properties link appears in the HP Storage Essentials Pages section on the Tools & Links tab. Click the SE System Properties link to view the Storage Essentials device page for this storage system.

  • For storage hosts, HP Storage Essentials adds the System Application Discovery Settings link to the Tools & Links Page. Use this link to access the preferences for HP Storage Essentials system application discovery.

  • No data is displayed in HP Systems Insight Manager storage system reports. This is because HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) data collection from SMI-S devices is disabled to avoid duplicate data collection from both HP SIM and HP Storage Essentials. For information on storage system reporting with HP Storage Essentials, see your HP Storage Essentials documentation.

  • The storage tables in HP SIM's Data Collection reports are not populated with data because HP SIM's SMI-S data collection is disabled.

  • Storage systems that are managed by HP Storage Essentials show a subtype of Storage Essentials Managed, and do not show the SMI subtype.

  • HP SIM determines device health status by polling the SMI-S providers of storage systems. If HP Storage Essentials discovered a storage array, storage switch, or tape library by a method other than SMI-S, HP SIM lists the device's status as Unknown.

  • System properties that are edited in HP SIM are not transferred to HP Storage Essentials.

  • The Suspend or Resume Monitoring command has no effect on HP Storage Essentials systems.

  • HP Storage Essentials events are handled as follows:

    • HP Storage Essentials events are available in the Events tab of the System Page for all storage systems.

    • A collection called Storage Essentials is added to the list of shared collections under Events in the Systems and Events panel.

    • When an event is cleared in HP SIM, it is also cleared in HP Storage Essentials.

    • Deleting an event in HP SIM does not cause the event to be deleted in HP Storage Essentials.

    • When an event is cleared in HP Storage Essentials, it is also cleared in HP SIM.

    • Deleting an event in HP Storage Essentials does not cause the event to be deleted in HP SIM.

    • Comments that are added to events in HP SIM are not transferred to HP Storage Essentials.

    • A link in the Event Details section allows you to view the corresponding event details in HP Storage Essentials.

  • The Automatic tab on the Discovery page shows the status of the HP Storage Essentials discovery process and provides a link to the HP Storage Essentials discovery log.

  • The General Settings section in the Automatic tab on the Discovery page includes a link to the HP Storage Essentials global application settings configuration page.

  • When HP Storage Essentials is installed, a Toolbox for Storage Essentials tools is added to the Toolboxes tab of the Users and Authorizations page.

For additional information about HP Storage Essentials, see your HP Storage Essentials documentation.

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