Managing HP Integrity Servers with HP Server Automation and HP Virtual Server Environment

Event and Health Monitoring
The system administrator is using HP SIM, the foundation of VSE, for monitoring health status and
events. HP SIM polls each managed server periodically to retrieve a consolidated health status value
that reflects the status of the server’s hardware components. This health status value can be displayed
in several places in the HP SIM user interface, and is used to access more detailed information about
the health of the system. SNMP and WBEM events can be directed to the HP SIM central
management server, where actions such as email notifications, script execution and event assignment
can be automated, and event details can be viewed. In this case, the system administrator receives
several email notifications from HP SIM indicating that the CPU run queue lengths on one of the
systems are surpassing a set threshold. This condition signifies that system performance may be
suffering. The system administrator displays the HP SIM user interface to gather more information
about this problem.
Figure 1 shows an HP SIM table view of a collection of 11i servers. The HS (Health Status) column
represents health status for an individual device, and the ES (Event Status) column represents the most
critical, uncleared event that has been received for that device. The Events tab gives quick access to
an event viewer and displays a filtered view of the events for this collection of systems, including event
details that the system administrator has already received in email. The left navigation panel can also
be customized to show the HS and ES status icons.
Figure 1: HP Systems Insight Manager
VSE Virtualization Manager View
While looking at the HP SIM system table view, the system administrator is reminded that this system
is an nPartition in a Superdome complex. Knowing that VSE Virtualization Manager view within HP
SIM (Figure 2) provides additional information, the administrator looks to see whether this server is
being managed by the VSE automated workload management capability. The VSE Virtualization
Manager view shows servers and their relationships to each other at a glance. Icons within the box
for each server represent the server’s health, as well as its performance measures (CPU, Memory,
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