HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

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. WBEM is instrumented on HP-UX ProLiant Windows servers, HP-UX
servers, Linux Integrity, Open VMS, Windows Integrity servers and Non-Stop Kernel (NSK). HP SIM also
manages VMWare ESXi servers running WBEM as well as 3
rd
party vendor storage devices that are
instrumented with WBEM providers.The wbem2; protocol is used to collect data from storage systems such
as arrays, tape libraries, Fibre Channel switches, and HBAs. Any device that has a HP Insight Management
WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 profile identified will have data
collected through this provider taking precedence over WMI/SNMP collection. 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 then select the appropriate guide for your operating system.
iCAP properties for Cells and Processors for a Complex are collected and displayed using HP-UX WBEM.
For HP-UX, the following software is required for essential HP SIM functionality to operate. This software is
installed by default as part of the latest HP-UX 11i v3 (11.3), HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) and HP_UX 11i v1
(11.11) which can only be installed on HP 9000 servers.
NOTE: WBEM providers are only collected under WBEM.
Kernel Module and Kernel Tunable information is collected and stored for HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) and HP-UX
11i v3 (11.31) and gives information on name, description, current value, default value, boot value, next
boot value, maximum boot value, dynamic flag, and required flag. For more information, see “Reporting
views”.
Server, Power supply, Fan, Menory, CPU, and Sensor related details are collected and stored from ESX 3i
WBEM providers.
Status, software, system unit, and power supply information is collected and stored from XEN SNMP providers.
Microsoft Hypervisor, Hyper-V, information is collected and stored through Windows WMI providers.
IPv6 providers are available on the following systems:
Table 16-1 IPv6 providers
ProviderName
Windows WMIMicrosoft Vista
Windows WMIMicrosoft Windows Server 2008
SNMP from SmartStart CD 8.1 and above, WMI from HP Instight
Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server Version 2.3
and above.
Windows ProLiants
1
SNMP from SmartStart CD 8.1 and above, WMI from HP Instight
Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server Version 2.3
and above.
Linux ProLiants
HP WBEM Services 2.7HP-UX
1 IPv6 Addresses are not collected when HP Insight Management WBEM Provider for Windows Version 2.2 or below is installed on
the managed systems even though SmartStart 8.1 is installed.
After HP SIM collects data initially during the identification process, 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 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 data collection 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.
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