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Additional support for Insight Management on HP ProLiant
servers
Support for management of HP ProLiant servers using HP SIM continues to expand in response to the
need for more systems management in increasingly complex environments.
HP Insight Management WBEM Providers
The HP Insight Management Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Providers offer an
alternative to the SNMP-based Insight Agents for collecting and delivering managed system
information to HP SIM. WBEM is a defined standard for a set of management and Internet
technologies intended to unify management of distributed computing environments. The Distributed
Management Task Force (DMTF) developed and maintains the WBEM standard. It is intended as a
next-generation management standard.
The HP WBEM Providers are based on Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Microsoft's
implementation of the WBEM standard. WBEM Providers deliver the management information they
collect to the WMI service, part of the Windows operating system. The WMI service acts as the client-
side interface to HP SIM in the same way that that the Microsoft SNMP Service does in the Insight
Agents architecture. The WBEM Providers client-side architecture also incorporates the System
Management Homepage framework.
Systems using WBEM Providers and those running Insight Agents can co-exist within the HP SIM. HP
SIM will discover and transparently manage servers running either type of client-side management
architecture.
Support for ProLiant 100-series servers
Beginning with G6 servers and HP SIM 5.3, HP ProLiant 100 - series servers are supported in HP SIM
using the HP Insight Management Agents. Previously, ProLiant 100 - series servers supported only the
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) for system management. IPMI did not integrate with
HP SIM. HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 provides full integration with ProLiant 100-series G6
servers, including discovery and association with the Lights Out 100 management processors on the
servers. HP SIM and the Insight Management Agents are not supported on any earlier generations of
the ProLiant 100-series servers. More information on HP Insight Management Agents and their support
on ProLiant 100-series servers is available at
www.hp.com/go/100series/agents.
Conclusion
The HP Insight Management Agents for Windows servers continue to offer a robust solution for
monitoring and managing HP ProLiant servers. They provide SNMP-based system management that
integrates into the HP SIM solution framework and provides greater security than traditional SNMP
management solutions. Although HP introduced WBEM-based Providers as an alternative client-side
management solution, the Insight Management Agents architecture continues to be supported on HP
ProLiant servers. Beginning with G6 servers, this support now includes the HP ProLiant 100 - series
servers.
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