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12 tools that extend management, Tools that, Extend management – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

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12 Tools that extend management

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) provides you with many powerful

tools

:

Cluster Monitor.

Adds the ability to monitor and manage multi-system MSCS

clusters

Command Line Tools.

Command line tools are part of a

Distributed Task Facility

(DTF) and one of

the

tools

available in HP SIM to run on

single-system aware

(SSA) systems

Custom Tools.

Enables you to create and manage custom tools that run on the Central Management

Server (CMS) and on target systems and can reference environment variables set by the tool to access
system or event information

Device Ping.

Enables you to ping one or more systems

Disk Thresholds.

Defines the Normal, Minor, and Major ranges for disk utilization on monitored

nodes and is used to set and remove disk thresholds

DMI Access.

Allows setting the HP SIM

Central Management Server

(CMS) as the event target on

selected HP-UX systems where DMI has been installed

HP ProLiant Essentials Server Migration Pack (SMP).

Extends the functionality of the HP ProLiant

Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack (VMM) to provide integrated physical-to-virtual (P2V),
virtual-to-virtual (V2V), and virtual-to-physical (V2P) migrations

Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install.

Enables you to install software to managed systems

Licensing.

Provides the ability to manage license

keys

from HP SIM, including key distribution,

reconciliation, and reporting across Windows platforms

Management processor tools.

After management processors have been discovered, the following

tools are available: system power, system locator, new user, modify user, delete user, LAN access,
LDAP settings, iLO control, firmware update, and deploying SSH public keys

Management Information Base (MIB) tools.

The following tools are available for managing MIBs:

compiling MIBs, editing MIBs, registering and unregistering MIBs, and viewing MIBs

OpenSSH Install

Runs from the Central Management Server (CMS) and installs the OpenSSH service

onto target Windows systems and then runs the mxagentconfig command to complete the configuration

HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP).

Enables you to watch and analyze in

real-time the performance of a monitored server and view recorded data sessions directly from the PMP
repository

Process Resource Manager (PRM) tools

HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) enables the system

administrator to focus the appropriate amount of system resources exactly where the business needs
them

Property Pages.

Enables users to view the Property pages on any WBEM system, including WBEM

properties that help describe the target system on the network, WBEM properties that help determine
the status of the system, and an inventory of the target system based on WBEM properties

Replicate Agent Settings.

Enables HP SIM to retrieve and optionally edit Web

Agent

configuration

settings from a source system and distribute that configuration remotely to one or more target systems
through their Web Agents

Serviceguard Clusters

Provides a mechanism to view cluster information by running HP Serviceguard

Manager

SNMP Access.

Allows setting the HP SIM

Central Management Server

(CMS) as the trap target on

selected HP-UX systems

System Management Homepage.

Displays the status of the management software and utilities installed

on the system

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