HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

3 Product overview
The Overview section includes a brief introduction to some of the major features of HP Systems
Insight Manager. High-level information on command-line tools, custom tools, discovery, and license
manager are some of the features discussed.
Introduction
HP SIM is the foundation for the HP unified server-storage management strategy. HP SIM is a
hardware-level management product that supports multiple operating systems on HP ProLiant,
Integrity and HP 9000 servers, HP StorageWorks MSA, EVA, XP arrays, and third-party arrays.
Through a single management view of Microsoft® Windows®, HP-UX 11iv1, HP-UX 11iv2, HP-UX
11iv3, and Red Hat, and SuSE Linux, HP SIM provides the basic management features of:
• System discovery and identification
• Single-event view
• Inventory data collection
• Reporting
The core HP SIM software uses WBEM to deliver the essential capabilities required to manage all
HP server platforms.
HP SIM can provide systems management with plug-ins for HP clients, storage, power, and printer
products. Using HP Integrity Essentials you can choose plug-in applications that deliver complete
lifecycle management for your hardware assets:
• Workload management
• Capacity management
• Virtual machine management
• Partition management
HP SIM features
• Fault management and event handling
HP SIM provides proactive notification of actual or impending component failure alerts.
Automatic Event Handling enables you to configure actions to notify appropriate users of
failures through e-mail, and enables automatic execution of scripts or event forwarding to
enterprise platforms such as HP OpenView Network Node Manager or HP OpenVMS Systems.
• Consistent multisystem management
HP SIM initiates a task on multiple systems or nodes from a single command on the CMS. This
functionality eliminates the need for tedious, one-at-a-time operations performed on each
system.
• Two user interfaces
HP SIM provides the option of a browser-based GUI or a CLI that enables you to incorporate
HP SIM into your existing management processes.
• WBEM indications for HP-UX, Linux, and SMI-S devices
HP SIM enables you to use the GUI or CLI to subscribe and unsubscribe to WBEM indications.
22 Product overview