HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Procedure 175 Creating a software status polling task
1. Select Options→Status Polling→Software Status Polling.
2. Select target systems from the All Systems collection. The default selected is All Systems. For
more information, see Creating a task for more information.
3. Click Schedule to schedule the task, or click Run Now to run the task immediately. For more
information about scheduling the task, see Scheduling a task.
Hardware status polling
HP SIM tracks system health status using a predefined hardware status polling task. This task polls
for updates on hardware status through the different protocols. The following example describes
how to set up a task to poll systems using hardware status polling.
NOTE: One instance of this task is created by default when HP SIM is installed. It runs when new
systems or events meet the search criteria.
Procedure 176 Creating a hardware status polling task
1. Select Options→Status Polling→Hardware Status Polling.
2. Select the target systems. For more information, see Creating a task.
3. Click Next. The Select Protocol Settings section appears.
4. Select from the following protocols:
• HTTP
• Ping
• SNMP
• WBEM
• WS-MAN
NOTE: By default, all protocols are selected. If all protocols are clear, then the Schedule
and Run Now buttons are disabled. To limit polling to only determine whether a system is up
or down, you can select only Ping.
After all these conditions are met, the WBEM status is cleared.
5. Select Timeout (in seconds):
• Use default (currently "5")
• Use custom. Timeout maximum is 120 seconds, with a minimum of one second.
6. Select the retry value:
• Use default (currently "1")
• Use custom. The retry maximum is 10 retries, with a minimum of 0 retries.
7. Select one of the following options to execute the task:
• Schedule. Click Schedule to schedule when the task should run. For more information
about scheduling a task, see Creating a task.
• Criticality. Select Critical (default) or Non-Critical.
Click OK.
• Run Now. Click Run Now to run the task now. The Task Results Page appears. For more
information about the Task Results Page, see Task results list.
• Previous. Click Previous to return to the previous page.
Related procedure
Hardware status polling 299