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HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) provides the following features:
Easy and rapid installation. Installs on your server platform of choice running HP-UX, Windows, or Linux, or on a Windows desktop or workstation. First Time Wizard. Provides you with step-by-step, online guidance for performing the initial configuration of HP SIM. The wizard helps you configure HP SIM settings on the central management server (CMS). Automatic discovery and identification. Automatically discovers and identifies systems attached to the network. Use discovery filters to prevent discovery of unwanted system types. Discovery filters enable you to limit discovery to specific network segments or IP address ranges. Fault management and event handling. Provides proactive notification of actual or impending component failure alerts. Automatic Event Handling enables you to configure actions to notify appropriate users of failures through e-mail, pager, or Short Message Service (SMS) gateway, and enables automatic execution of scripts or event forwarding to enterprise platforms, such as HP OpenView Network Node Manager or HP OpenView Operations.
Consistent multi-system management. Initiates a task on multiple systems or nodes from a single command on the CMS. This functionality eliminates the need for tedious, one-at-a-time operations on each system. Secure remote management. Leverages operating system security for user authentication and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Secure Shell (SSH) to encrypt management communications. Role-based security. Enables effective delegation of management responsibilities by giving system administrators granular control over which users can perform which management operations on which systems. Tool definitions. Defines tools using simple XML documents that enable you to integrate off-the-shelf or custom tools. These tools can be command line tools, Web-based applications, or scripts. Access to these integrated tools is governed by role-based security. Data collection and inventory reports. Performs comprehensive system data collection and enables you to quickly produce detailed inventory reports for managed systems. Reports can be generated in HTML, XML, or CSV format. Snapshot comparisons. Enables you to compare configuration snapshots of up to four different servers or configuration snapshots of a single server over time. This functionally assists IT staff in pinpointing configuration issues that can contribute to system instability. Snapshot comparisons can also be used to save a picture of standard configuration for comparisons to other systems. HP Version Control. Automatically downloads the latest BIOS, driver, and agent updates for HP ProLiant servers running Windows and Linux, identifies systems running out-of-date system software, and enables system software updates across groups of servers. For HP-UX systems, Software Distributor is integrated into HP SIM. Two user interfaces. Provides a Web browser graphical user interface (GUI) and command line interface (CLI) to help incorporate HP SIM into your existing management processes. Edit system properties on managed systems. The Edit System Properties link on the System Page enables users with full-configuration-rights to re-configure system properties for a single system. To set system properties for multiple systems, select Options System Properties Set System Properties. This affects the system properties as reported by HP SIM, but does not change the properties on the target systems. Suspend and resume monitoring of systems. Enables you to set the timer for suspending monitoring. This enables a system to be excluded from status polling, identification, data collection, and the automatic event handling features of HP SIM. The Suspend/Resume Monitoring link under the Tools & Links tab of the System Page enables you to set the timer for suspending or resuming system monitoring. To suspend or resume system monitoring for multiple systems, select Options System Properties Suspend or Resume Monitoring. The available suspend lengths include the predetermined increments of five minutes, 15 minutes, one hour and one day. The suspend feature can be turned on indefinitely. Install OpenSSH tool. Runs from the CMS and installs the OpenSSH service onto target Windows systems and then runs the mxagentconfig command to complete the configuration. Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install optionally installs OpenSSH. HP SIM enables you to install OpenSSH through the Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install process by selecting Install and initialize OpenSSH (Secure Shell) on the Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install page. Support for HP-UX Serviceguard clusters. HP SIM recognizes HP-UX Serviceguard clusters and displays them in the UI. HP Serviceguard Manager is opened by clicking a Serviceguard cluster in a search list, and provides information on the clusters. WBEM Indications for HP-UX, Linux, and SMI-S devices. HP SIM enables you to subscribe and unsubscribe to WBEM indications through the GUI. You can also subscribe or unsubscribe to WBEM indications from the CLI. For HP-UX, this feature is only available on 11i v2 September 2004. HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE). HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE) is a proactive remote monitoring and diagnostic tool to help manage your systems and devices, a feature of HP support. ISEE gives you simple, unified approach to monitoring your entire datacenter. Instead of using separate technologies for each of your platforms, you can monitor and manage a diverse IT environment with a single solution. ISEE helps you proactively manage and support HP-UX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, NonStop and Sun Solaris servers, connected peripherals, and storage and network devices. It reduces cost and complexity by supporting both mission critical and non-mission critical systems and devices. ISEE provides continuous hardware event monitoring and automated notification to identify and prevent potential critical problems. Through remote diagnostic scripts and vital system configuration information collected about your systems, ISEE enables fast restoration of your systems. Install ISEE on your systems to help mitigate risk and prevent potential critical problems.
HP System Management Homepage. The System Management Homepage is a Web-based application that provides a consolidated interface for single system management. By aggregating the data from HP Web-based agents and management utilities, the System Management Homepage provides a common, easy-to-use interface for displaying hardware fault and status monitoring, performance data, system thresholds, diagnostics, and software version control for an individual server. Performance Management Pack (PMP) access. A software solution that detects, analyzes, and explains hardware bottlenecks on HP ProLiant servers and Modular Shared Array (MSA) shared storage. PMP tools available in HP SIM consist of Online Analysis, Offline Analysis, CSV File Generator Report, System Summary Report, Static Analysis Report, Configuration, Licensing, and Manual Log Purge. PMP is automatically installed with HP SIM and operates in integration with HP SIM. No software installation on the monitored servers is required, other than the Insight Management Agents. PMP 4.0 includes:
Support for HP SIM 5.0 (this version of PMP does not support HP SIM 4.x)
Support for Oracle database (locally or remote)
Support for select HP Integrity servers
New in PMP v4.0.1:
Support for Red Hat Linux 4.0
Support for HP ProLiant BL25p servers
Provides an option to remove or retain old PMP database files during the installation process
Refer to http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantessentials/valuepack/pmp/index.html for more information. HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack (VPM) access. VPM identifies and provides advice to resolve security vulnerabilities and delivers advanced patch management through automated acquisition, optimized deployment, and continuous enforcement of security patches. VPM must be manually installed from the Management CD and requires one license for each target system being managed. Five fully functional non-expiring licenses, for use on servers or desktops, are provided with VPM for evaluation purposes. For more information about installation and setup, refer to the HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack Quick Setup Poster and the HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack User Guide, both on the Management CD. For more information on VPM, go to HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack at http://www.hp.com/servers/proliantessentials/vpm. HP ProLiant Essentials Virtualization Management Software (VS). Virtual machine management capabilities integrated into HP SIM extends its capabilities to deliver unified management of an IT infrastructure consisting of both physical and virtual server resources, simplifying and consolidating the provisioning, management and migration of all server resources from one central interface. The virtual machine management capabilities in HP SIM are provided by integrating the HP ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack (VMM) and the HP ProLiant Essentials Server Migration Pack (SMP). Both these components are installed together as one component, but licensed separately. HP ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack. VMM provides central management and control for virtual machines of type Microsoft’s Virtual Server and VMware’s GSX or ESX. Using VMM, all virtual machines and Virtual Machine (VM) hosts can be managed from the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) console. The Virtual Machine Management Pack displays a tree view of the VM hosts and VM guests in the left pane of the HP SIM console. After selecting a system in the left pane tree, information for the system selected is displayed in the right pane. You then have options to deploy, register, unregister, and upgrade. VMM is now integrated into HP SIM, Refer to http://www.hp.com/servers/proliantessentials/vmm for documentation and more information on VMM. HP ProLiant Essentials Server Migration Pack. SMP extends the functionality of the VMM to provide integrated Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) and Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migrations. The SMP enables you to simplify the server consolidation process, thereby freeing you to focus on other priorities. SMP now offers a new SMP license type that allows unlimited migrations for one year after the first migration is initiated. To purchase additional licenses, refer to http://www.hp.com/servers/proliantessentials/smp.
HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP Systems Insight Manager. HP SIM delivers a blade environment designed to consolidate access to blade deployment, configuration, and monitoring tools. Picture views are available of racks and enclosures. HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager is automatically installed with HP SIM, no license key is required. To access HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager, select Tools Integrated Consoles HP BladeSystem.
Refer to http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/bsme/index.html for more information. HP Configure or Repair Agents. The Configure or Repair Agents feature is an HP SIM feature that enables you to repair credentials for SNMP settings, System Management Homepage or Management HTTP Server trust relationships on Windows, Linux, and HP-UX systems supported by HP SIM. For more information, refer to the Configure or Repair Agents Online Help at http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html. HP ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack (RDP) - Windows Edition. RDP is a multiserver deployment tool that enables IT administrators to easily deploy large volumes of servers in an unattended, automated fashion. RDP is installed separately from HP SIM and requires a license for each server being managed. RDP is installed from its own CD. Refer to http://www.hp.com/servers/rdp for information about network environment setup, prerequisites for the deployment server, and installation instructions. When installed, you must register your product registration number to receive a license file. A license is required for each server being managed by RDP. Data collection and inventory reports for Superdomes and other complexes. Data collection and reporting has been added for Superdome systems and other cellular complexes. The type of data that can be collected includes information on chasses, cabinets, cells, memory, and hard partitions (nPars). The type of data actually collected depends on which filters are selected. HP Storage Essentials. HP is changing the economics of management in the data center. HP Storage Essentials is the first open, standards-based suite of storage products designed to integrate into HP's unified server-storage management platform, HP SIM. For more information on HP Storage Essentials, go to http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/esuite/index.html. Manage SSH Keys. The SSH Keys feature enables you to view and manage the public SSH keys, stored in the known_hosts file, from the central management server. SSH keys enable the central management server and a managed system to authenticate a secure connection.
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