HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Systems Insight Manager 7.0 User Guide
- Table of Contents
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Setting up HP SIM
- 3 Setting up managed systems
- 4 Credentials
- 5 WMI Mapper Proxy
- 6 Discovery
- 7 Manage Communications
- 8 Automatic event handling
- 9 Users and Authorizations
- 10 Managed environment
- Part III HP SIM basic features
- 11 Basic and advanced searches
- 12 Monitoring systems
- 13 Event management
- 14 Reporting in HP SIM
- 15 HP SIM tools
- Part IV HP SIM advanced features
- 16 Collections in HP SIM
- 17 HP SIM custom tools
- 18 Federated Search
- 19 CMS reconfigure tools
- 20 Understanding HP SIM security
- 21 Privilege elevation
- 22 Contract and warranty
- 23 License Manager
- 24 Storage integration using SMI-S
- 25 Managing MSCS clusters
- 26 HP SIM Audit log
- 27 HP Version Control and HP SIM
- 28 Compiling and customizing MIBs
- A Important Notes
- System and object names must be unique
- Setting the Primary DNS Suffix for the CMS
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities menu options not available
- Virtual machine guest memory reservation size
- Insight Remote Support Advanced compatibility
- Database firewall settings
- Annotating the portal UI
- Security bulletins
- Validating RPM signatures
- Central Management Server
- Complex systems displaying inconsistency with the number of nPars within the complex
- Configure or Repair Agents
- Data collection reports
- B Troubleshooting
- Authentication
- Browser
- Central Management Server
- Complex
- Configure or Repair Agents
- Container View
- Credentials
- Data Collection
- Database
- Discovery
- iLO
- Linux servers
- Event
- Host name
- HP Insight Control power management
- Insight Control virtual machine management
- HP Smart Update Manager
- Systems Insight Manager
- Identification
- Installation
- License Manager
- Locale
- Managed Environment
- HP MIBs
- Onboard Administrator
- OpenSSH
- Performance
- Ports used by HP SIM.
- Privilege elevation
- Property pages
- Reporting
- Security
- Sign-in
- SNMP settings
- SSH communication
- System Page
- System status
- Target selection wizard
- Tasks
- Tools
- Upgrade
- UUID
- Virtual identifiers
- Virtual machines
- VMware
- WBEM
- WBEM indications
- WMI Mapper
- C Protocols used by HP SIM
- D Data Collection
- E Default system tasks
- Biweekly Data Collection
- System Identification
- Old Noisy Events
- Events Older Than 90 Days
- Status Polling for Non Servers
- Status Polling for Servers
- Status Polling for Systems No Longer Disabled
- Hardware Status Polling for Superdome 2 Onboard Administrator
- Data Collection
- Hardware Status Polling
- Version Status Polling
- Version Status Polling for Systems no Longer Disabled
- Check Event Configuration
- Status polling
- F Host file extensions
- G System Type Manager rules
- H Custom tool definition files
- I Out-of-the-box MIB support in HP SIM
- J Support and other resources
- Glossary
- Index
UniqueIdentifier in SIM
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Virtual identifiers
A new feature of virtual connect is to enable server profiles to have virtual identifiers, such as serial
numbers and unique identifiers. These identifiers then move with the profile across server hardware.
There are a number of management tools that currently rely on these identifiers to remain stable
for any given hardware platform, if not some serious issues, such as loss of software licenses will
occur.
When setting up an environment for virtual identifier support the following steps must be taken for
proper operations of the management tools.
1. Upgrade HP SIM to version 5.2 Update 2 or later.
2. For any server that will have a profile with a virtual identifier, upgrade the ROM BIOS to the
latest version to ensure it contains virtual identifier support.
Note The server hardware must be listed in the virtual ID support matrix.
3. Upgrade the agents and WMI providers on the servers that will be used for virtual identifiers.
(See the version table below for proper versions).
4. Upgrade the firmware for the Onboard Administrator to version 2.25 or later.
5. On the virtual connect Ethernet module, upgrade the virtual connect firmware to version 1.3
or later. Do not enable virtual identifiers at this time.
6. On the virtual connect Ethernet module, enable virtual identifiers.
7. You may now create and assign profiles with virtual identifiers.
WARNING! If you do not follow the specific instructions for enabling Virtual Identifiers in your
environment and you enable the feature without the proper agent revisions, iLO firmware, Insight
Orchestration firmware, System ROM revisions, and HP SIM version, then systems might appear
multiple times and systems might not properly be associated with systems. If that happens, upgrade
to all of the latest software prescribed in the c-Class chassis. You might also need to delete
discovered systems in the chassis and rediscover them.
Supported Software and Firmware There are a number of distinct firmware and agents updates
required to support virtual identifiers.
Note: Failure to meet the minimal revision of any of the listed components can result in virtual
identifiers not working properly resulting in the loss of licenses in HP SIM, in issues obtaining proper
warranty information, or result in orphaned systems showing in the system list.
The table below outlines the minimal versions required by management tools such as HP SIM and
Remote Support Pack to properly operate.
Table B-1 Minimal versions
VersionProduct
2.0x, 2.1x, and 2.3xVirtual Connect Manager
2.30Onboard Administrator
1.6Integrated Lights-Out
(see supported server matrix for Virtual Connect)Server ROM
8.1ProLiant Support Pack / SNMP agents
2.2ProLiant Support Pack / WMI providers
5.3 or laterSystems Insight Manager
198 Troubleshooting