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HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM)IT Consolidation - Enterprise Storage - IT Consolidation - Enterprise Servers - High Availability Computing - Data Protection - Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity - Information Lifecycle Management - Software Solutions - Data Center Management Software HP OpenView - HP Systems Insight Manager - HP Storage Essentials - CommVault - VMware Software - Brocade Management Software Most IT organizations understand that ongoing administration and maintenance of existing infrastructure consumes the lion's share of their IT budgets, while hardware and software acquisition costs only account for about 20% of overall expenditures.How can you reduce your IT expenses? By streamlining your processes and reducing complexity. With HP Systems Insight Manager and optional Essentials software plug-ins, HP delivers a heterogeneous multi-OS server and storage management solution that enables you to holistically monitor and control your environment which improves operational efficiency and reduces costs. HP Systems Insight Manager is the foundation for HP's unified server-storage management strategy. Unified infrastructure management from HP:
Key Benefits HP Systems Insight Manager 4 was the first Infrastructure Management tool to provide unified management of HP's ProLiant, Integrity and PA-RISC servers across Windows, HP-UX and LINUX. HP SIM 5.0 was again the first to unify the management server and SMI-S compliant storage devices including SAN and NAS. In yet another first, HP SIM 5.1 begins the seamless unification of entitlement, and service and support into a unified infrastructure management tool HP SIM also serves as a central access point for ProLiant Essentials, Integrity Essentials, and Storage Essentials software options that deliver targeted functionality for these platforms. Now integrating HP Remote Support Essentials Pack. Standard Features
HP SIM installs on your server platform of choice running HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11iV3 on PA-RISC or Integrity platforms, Windows, or Linux.
HP SIM provides you with step-by-step, online guidance for performing the initial configuration of HP SIM. The wizard helps you configure HP SIM settings on the Central Management Server (CMS).
HP SIM automatically discovers and identifies devices attached to the network. Use Discovery Filters to prevent discovery of unwanted device types. Discovery filters enable you to limit discovery to specific network segments or IP address ranges.
HP SIM provides proactive notification of actual or impending component failure alerts. Automatic Event Handling enables you to configure actions to notify appropriate users of failures through e-mail, pager, or Short Message Service (SMS) gateway and enables automatic execution of scripts or event forwarding to enterprise platforms such as HP OpenView Network Node Manager or HP OpenView Operations.
HP SIM initiates a task on multiple systems or nodes from a single command on the CMS. This functionality eliminates the need for tedious, one-at-a-time operations on each system.
HP SIM leverages operating system security for user authentication and uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Secure Shell (SSH) to encrypt management communications.
HP SIM enables effective delegation of management responsibilities by giving systems administrators granular control over which users can perform which management operations on which systems.
HP SIM defines tools using simple XML documents that enable you to integrate off-the-shelf or custom tools. These tools can be command line tools, web-based applications, or scripts. Access to these integrated tools is governed by role-based security.
HP SIM performs comprehensive system data collection and enables users to quickly produce detailed inventory reports for managed systems. Reports can be generated in HTML, XML, or CSV format.
HP SIM enables you to compare configuration snapshots of up to four different servers or configuration snapshots of a single server over time. This functionality assists IT staff in pinpointing configuration issues that can contribute to system instability. Snapshot comparisons can also be used to save a picture of a standard configuration for comparisons to other systems.
HP SIM automatically downloads the latest BIOS, driver, and agent updates for HP ProLiant and HP Integrity servers running Windows and Linux, identifies systems running out-of-date system software, and enables system software updates across groups of servers. For HP-UX systems, Software Distributor is integrated into HP SIM.
HP SIM provides a web browser graphical user interface (GUI) and a command line interface (CLI) to make it easy to incorporate HP SIM into your existing management processes.
HP SIM recognizes HP-UX Serviceguard clusters and displays them in the GUI. HP Serviceguard Manager is opened by clicking a Serviceguard cluster in a search list and provides information on the clusters.
HP SIM enables you to subscribe and unsubscribe to Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) indications through the GUI. You can also subscribe or unsubscribe to WBEM indications from the CLI.
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