A.05.80 HP Insight Remote Support Advanced Central Management Server Configuration Guide (October 2012)

Central Management Server Configuration Guide
Chapter 5: Remote Support Configuration Collector Services
Working with SAN Configuration Collections
SAN Configuration Collections are specific system collections in HP SIM that are created and managed
within the collection group named SAN Collections listed under the Insight Remote Support
Advanced Services entry in the left panel of HP SIM. As your SAN is determined by your IT business
objectives, there is no automatic discovery of it as a collective, but the supported individual hardware
components are discovered by HP SIM and independent systems.
Storage Area Networks (SANs) may be comprised of storage devices, switches, and server systems in
an enterprise. In order to collect configuration information from SAN, you must create an HP SIM system
collection that reflects the devices that make up the SAN. Once the SAN system collection is created,
you will configure details for individual members of the SAN using the Insight Remote Support Advanced
functionality available through the SAN Services tab.
Important: It is critical that you do not add managed systems to your SAN if you have not yet properly
configured them as directed in the Insight Remote Support Advanced Managed Systems
Configuration Guide.
The SAN Services tab allows you to group devices in a SAN, define device types, and provide
authentication details by group or individual device.
To access previously created SAN Configuration Collections, select the SAN Configuration Collection
from the RS SAN Collections drop-down list to display details for the selected SAN Configuration
Collection.
To create a new SAN Configuration Collection refer to "Creating a New SAN Configuration Collection in
HP SIM" below.
Creating a New SAN Configuration Collection in HP
SIM
The Remote Support Configuration Collector collects configuration data across multiple devices if they
are members of an HP SIM system collection. When devices are discovered by HP SIM they are added
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