HP SIM V5.1 User Guide (356920-009, January 2007)

NOTE: HP SIM supports WBEM over HTTPS to ensure user supplied WBEM name and password pairs
are protected.
NOTE: OpenWBEM is not supported.
Related procedures
• Setting global protocols
• Setting protocols for a system or groups of systems
Related topics
• Protocols
• WMI Mapper Proxy
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. Additionally, 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. 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
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html, and select the
appropriate guide for your operating system.
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.
NOTE: The Data Collection Report does not display CPU information for Netware systems.
NOTE: To enable data collection to collect data from any of the aforementioned instrumentation protocols,
the corresponding protocol must be enabled, and the appropriate protocol settings must be specified, globally
or for the specific target system. See “Setting global protocols” for more information on setting global protocol
settings and “Setting protocols for a system or groups of systems” for more information on setting single
system protocol settings.
NOTE: To enable collection of DMI data from a DMI-instrumented HP-UX system, be sure that the name of
the server that the HP SIM runs on is added to the /var/dmi/dmimachines file of the target system.
NOTE: To enable collection of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) data from WMI-instrumented
systems, a WMI Mapper Proxy must have been set up and specified through Options→Protocol
504 Administering systems and events