Configuring HP SIM for Optimal Performance in Large Environments

Two default queries, All Systems and All Events, produce a listing of all systems that have been
discovered by Systems Insight Manager, and a list of all events that have been received. Separating
events by what is important to your business needs is essential to maintain the performance of Systems
Insight Manager. When managing a large number of systems (greater than 1,000), you can segment
the systems according to importance, location, type, operating system, and more. Leverage the
customize collections or Advanced Search features to create different collections to meet your needs.
For example, to fine tune the events to collect selected ProLiant events instead of all events:
1. Select Advanced Search and search for specific event types with a critical and major severity
type.
Figure 4: Collection for Critical and Major events for specific ProLiant events
When you view collections of up to 5,000 items, Systems Insight Manager can seem slow
depending on the system resources that are available on both the host and the client because of
the amount of data returned from the database. Segmenting collections by responsibility of area of
expertise (like e-mail servers, database servers, file servers, print servers, task servers, and line of
business servers) provides greater functionality for viewing specific information while improving
responsiveness. This also enables you to set up tasks specific to those particular systems. In a
normal network environment, you can potentially receive a large number of asynchronous events.
Creating a number of smaller collections allows the query system to function more responsively
and allows greater segmentation for executing a specific task when events occur.
Note:
The Discovered System event is generated so that actions can be taken
when new systems are added or removed from the network.