HP VMware ESXi management environment integration note

Hardware monitoring with HP Systems Insight Manager

Insight Providers collect data from sources such as drivers and system firmware to populate the CIM

data model. HP SIM receives the system hardware inventory and hardware health monitoring data.

Table B-1 in Appendix B lists the component information provided by the environment by data source.

The Insight Providers for ESXi collect management data from the ProLiant base server system and its

processor, fan, power supply, memory, network, storage, and network subsystems. Additionally, the

Insight Providers for ESXi 4.0 collect management data from the following sources:

 Smart Array Providers - Smart Array controller, external storage enclosure, internal drive cage, data

and spare drive and logical volume information.

 Networking Providers - Ethernet ports, statistics, port link status, IP and MAC addresses.

 PCI Providers - PCI device, adapter card and slot information.

 Sensor Providers - Temperature sensors information (for CPU, chassis, memory), temperature sensors

threshold values and current readings.

 Software Inventory - Ethernet adapter driver versions, CIM provider version and Server Active ROM

and redundant ROM versions.

Information provided includes properties and health status for all individual devices and redundant

sets per subsystem, plus real-time event notifications. The Insight Providers deliver in-depth hardware

management, inventory data, system state, and event notifications through HP SIM. The providers will

report a range of server information such as server model, name, serial number, IP address, OS, and

universal unique identifier (UUID), including overall server or consolidated health status through the

HP SIM systems page. Each subsystem provider will report individual configuration and status

information through HP SIM property pages. Figure 2 shows an example of physical memory

information, such as the socket number on the processor board, size, and status.

Figure 2. HP SIM Physical Memory status