Insight Provider Deployment And Snmp Agent Removal; Integration With Hp Sim; Identification; Systems Page - Compaq BL10e - HP ProLiant - 512 MB RAM Hardware Manual

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Insight Provider deployment and SNMP agent removal

Insight Provider deployment can occur in sequence with deployment or removal of SNMP agents.
Users who currently depend on SNMP to provide their management infrastructure can choose to
remove the agents at the same time they install Insight Providers for Windows. As there are no
interdependencies, SNMP agent removal can also be performed at a later date.

Integration with HP SIM

HP SIM 5.2 and the HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows are fully integrated for
identification, inventory, reporting, event monitoring, disk thresholding, and status polling.
HP SIM provides many capabilities:
• A mechanism to identify a Windows server that hosts Insight Providers for Windows.
• A variety of WBEM data on the Systems page that characterizes the managed node.
• WBEM indications including subscribing for CIM alerts and user-defined disk thresholds.
• The ability to set disk thresholds from within SMH.
• A module that keeps status up to date and makes it easy for a user to find an individual component
that is experiencing problems.
• WBEM consolidated status (an indicator of overall server health) as a component of Health Status.
• A link to the WBEM-based System Management Homepage.
• A variety of reports that include inventory and configuration information.
• An on-demand WBEM inventory of hardware and status.
• Remote Deployment of Insight Providers for Windows and configuration of the providers.
The following sections illustrate points of integration between HP SIM and Insight Providers for
Windows.

Identification

During the HP SIM identification process, HP SIM determines if a managed node is running a
Windows operating system. If a Windows operating system is running, HP SIM attempts to contact
Insight Providers for Windows. If the Insight Providers are present, HP SIM identification will create a
path to these providers so that HP SIM can immediately contact and collect data from the Insight
Providers for Windows using the reporting and status polling function.

Systems page

The HP SIM Systems page provides an overview of the managed node. The Systems page summary
includes IP and DNS information, links to additional management tools such as SMH, and a list of
WBEM indications and SNMP events that have been generated by the managed node.
Figure 1 provides examples of how the HP SIM Systems page integrates with Insight Providers for
Windows.
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