HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

Functionality when enabledDescriptionManagement Standard
Identification, inventory, and eventsWMI is Microsoft’s implementation of
WBEM. WMI runs over DCOM, which in
turn, uses RPC. WMI is generally not
suitable through firewalls because a
number of ports must be opened and the
management traffic cannot be separated
from other DCOM requests. For Windows
systems behind a firewall, HP recommends
installing the WMI Mapper on a managed
system in the secure network. This mapper
allows standard CIM-XML requests through
the firewall, and they are mapped to WMI
requests on the managed system.
Windows Management Instrumentation
(WMI)
Related topics
• System tab
• System Page
• Setting global protocols
Data collection
Data collection is used to gather data that can be used for reporting. This data can be collected and stored
in the database in two ways. You can choose to maintain only the most recent data, enabling you to run
reports or compare different systems to each other using Snapshot Comparison. Or, you can store all of the
data collected over time, which enables you to use Snapshot Comparison to view trends on a single system.
Data collection uses SNMP , Desktop Management Interface (DMI) , Web-Based Enterprise Management
(WBEM) , or a combination of the three protocols to gather information, which ensures you a comprehensive
dossier on a system. However, OpenWBEM is not supported. Typically, DMI is instrumented on
Windows-based desktop computers and laptops and on HP-UX systems. SNMP is instrumented on
Windows-based servers, Linux systems and other networking systems, and can be used to interrogate
Windows-based desktops. The WBEM protocol is used to collect data from storage systems such as arrays,
tape libraries, Fibre Channel switches, and HBAs. Any device that has a HP Insight Management WBEM
Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008 WBEM providers profile identified will have data collected
through this provider taking precedence over Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)/SNMP collection.
Data can be collected from any storage system with an SMI-S provider that complies with the Storage
Networking Industry Association's Storage Management Initiative Specification . For more information about
SMI-S providers, see the HP SIM user guides located at HP SIM 5.2 Installation Guide at http://
h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html, and then select the
appropriate guide for your operating system.
Instant capacity (iCAP) properties for Cells and Processors for a Complex is collected and displayed using
the HP-UX Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM). For HP-UX, the following software is required for
essential HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) functionality to operate. This software is installed by default
as part of the latest HP-UX 11i v3 (11.3), HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) and HP_UX 11i v1 (11.11) which can only
be installed on HP 9000 servers.
NOTE: WBEM providers is only collected under the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM).
After HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) collects data initially, you can schedule a Data Collection task
to specify systems and run the task with different schedules. In addition to the default Initial and Bi-Weekly
Data Collection tasks built in to HP SIM, you can set up new data collection tasks targeting specific managed
systems . If you are scheduling to Overwrite existing data set (for detailed analysis), formerly known as
Single Instance Data Collection task in Insight Manager 7, having it run once per week (smaller networks)
to once per month (larger networks) should be adequate. If you are scheduling to Append new data set
(for historical trend analysis), it might be beneficial to run it more frequently, perhaps once per hour for
your most important systems, realizing it consumes database storage space.
To create a Data Collection task from the toolbar, select Options→Data Collection.
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