HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Manage Communications table columns
Columns display the status of an operation between the CMS and it's systems. See:
• Selection
• System Name
• Identification
• Events
• Run Tools
• Version Control
• System Type
• OS Name
NOTE: Systems that do not have an IP address (enclosures, racks, clusters, complex, and storage devices)
have no status displayed.
Selection
Select the checkbox in this column to select a system. You can select more than one system. Select the
checkbox in the column heading to select or deselect all displayed systems.
System Name
This column contains the actual system name of all discovered systems. Systems appear as a single system
or as a system in a container. When you place the cursor over the system name, the full system DNS name
appears, which helps differentiate between two or more systems that share the same system name. If you
click the system name link, the System Page appears. See “System Page” for more information. If you click
a system that is a container (rack or enclosure), the picture view for that object appears. See “Navigating
the picture view page” for more information. See “About racks and enclosures” for more information about
racks and enclosures.
The System Name column displays systems along with their associations.
Identification
The Identification column includes status information on the state of an identification process . Identification
attempts to determine what the system type is, what management protocol a system supports, using credentials
from the Global Protocol Settings page, and attempts to determine the operating system and version
loaded, along with other basic attributes about the system. Finally, it determines if the system is associated
with another system. The status in this column is a roll-up of the status of all available protocols. The statuses
are analyzed based on status, system type, system operating system, and instrumentation options. There are
no status icons for systems that cannot have a status, such as complexes, enclosures, and racks. The
identification status is updated each time an identification task runs.
Events
The Events column indicates if the CMS can receive events from the target systems. This status considers
the setting of SNMP traps and WBEM indications.
For HP-UX, if sending a package to test if the CMS name or IP address exists on the managed systems does
not work, then testing sending trap destinations is not supported.
The informational icon is appears if the Daily Check Event Configuration task has not run or if the system
does not support events.
Run Tools
The Run Tools column indicates if the CMS can run tools locally on target systems. For example, HP SMH.
Communication issues in this column usually relate to security and trust relationships. For more information
about setting up trust relationships, see “Setting up trust relationships”.
394 Tools that extend management