HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

NOTE: Information retrieved from the database appears in the language in which it was stored.
Data retrieved from the repository appears in the language corresponding to the browser locale.
NOTE: Searches saved with previous versions of HP SIM are still supported. Searches on HP
Support Pack are not supported and HP Support Pack software components are filtered from the
tree data. HP Support Packs were removed because systems were never returned from a query
containing a criteria with HP Support Packs selected. User-built custom support packs continue to
appear in this list. However, previously saved collections containing HP Support Packs continue
to appear.
Software components with no entry for operating system appear under the Other option in the and
operating system is selection, and software components with no entry for category appear under
the Other option in the and category type is selection. This is sometimes the case for
software/firmware criterion saved with older versions of HP SIM, because the saved operating
system and category names do not match exactly with the new operating system and category
names in the database.
You can search software and firmware installed on HP-UX systems. HP-UX populates data in
HPUX-Product and HPUX-Bundle tables with information about software and firmware installed on
managed HP-UX systems. The data retrieved from these tables include name, caption, and version
of each software and firmware installed on target machines. A new entry is added to the and
operating system is dropdown as HP-UX Bundles and Products. Two new categories, Bundles and
Products, are added in the and software/firmware is dropdown list. If there is no data in one of
these tables, then the category for that table does not appear. If there is no data from either of
these tables, then the operating system HP-UX Bundles and Products does not appear.
• When comparing against a custom support, the only comparison you can use with the custom
support pack is Equal To. In addition, HP SIM cannot determine whether a custom support
pack is actually installed on a system, only whether all components in a custom support pack
are installed on a system. A system is returned by this search only if every component in the
custom support pack is on the list. It is unlikely that all of the components in a custom support
pack are installed on any system, so use these criteria carefully.
• This criterion retrieves information from the SQL database table that was populated by a
Software Version Status Polling task. This table is also updated when software is installed
through the Update Software or Firmware HP SIM task. Therefore, if software was installed
or uninstalled on systems without using HP SIM and after a Software Version Status Polling
task was last run, this search might not return the correct results.
Cleared state criterion
You can run a search on the following event statuses:
• Any. Includes all events, whether Cleared, Not Cleared, or In Progress.
• Cleared. Includes events that are cleared.
• Not Cleared. Includes events that are not cleared.
• In Progress. Includes events from tasks in the progress: When the event is complete, these
events become Uncleared.
Server role criteria
The Server Role criteria is a system or event collection search that enables you to list the servers of
one or more matching roles. The server role is a user-specified value available on HP Insight
Management Agent 5.4 or later. To create the criteria, select server role in the Where dropdown
list on the Advanced Search page, and then select the criteria comparison option.
428 Reference