HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows servers

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You can use the Server Role field as one of the search criteria in the HP SIM Advanced Search
function. This allows it to find groups of servers based on their Server Role and to create SIM
Collections from these groups. Figure 8 shows an Advanced Search screen using Server Role as a
search criterion.
Figure 8: Advanced Search in HP SIM using Server Role as the criterion
Additional support for Insight Management on HP
ProLiant servers
Support for management of HP ProLiant servers using HP SIM continues to expand in response to
the increasing need for more systems management in complex environments.
HP Insight Management WBEM (WMI) Providers
The HP Insight Management Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Providers offer an
alternative to the SNMP-based Insight Agents for collecting and delivering managed system
information to HP SIM. WBEM is a defined standard for a set of management and Internet
technologies intended to unify management of distributed computing environments. The
Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) develops and maintains the WBEM standard.
The HP WBEM Providers are based on Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Microsoft’s
implementation of the WBEM standard. WBEM Providers deliver the management information they
collect to the WMI service, part of the Windows operating system. The WMI service acts as the
client-side interface to HP SIM in the same way that that the Microsoft SNMP Service does in the
Insight Agents architecture. The WBEM Providers client-side architecture also incorporates the
System Management Homepage framework.
Systems using WBEM Providers and those running Insight Agents can co-exist within HP SIM. HP
SIM will discover and transparently manage servers running either type of client-side management