Product architecture, Central management server, Managed systems – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual
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Product architecture
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) leverages a distributed architecture that is broken into three types of
systems:
(CMS),
, and web browser clients.
The CMS and the managed systems together are called the HP SIM
Central management server
Each management domain has a single CMS. The CMS is the
in the management domain that
executes the HP SIM software and initiates all central operations within the domain. In addition to the HP
SIM software, the CMS maintains a
for storage of persistent objects that can reside locally or on
a separate system. Typically, applications for the
(MSA) tools also reside on the CMS.
However, these applications are not required to reside on the CMS. They can reside anywhere on the
network.
Because the CMS is a system within the management environment, it manages itself as part of the domain.
You can add the CMS as a managed system within another management domain if you want to manage
the domain using a separate CMS.
Managed systems
Systems that make up a management domain are called managed systems. A system can be any device on
the network that can communicate with HP SIM, including servers, desktops, laptops, printers, workstations,
hubs,
, storage area networks (SANs), and routers. In most cases, these devices have an IP
address associated with them. A managed system can be managed by more than one CMS, if desired.
Systems to be managed must have one or more
installed. There is wide variety of
agents, such as the ProLiant management agents based on
,
Windows Management Instrumentation
(WMI) found on Windows systems, or
Web-Based Enterprise Management
(WBEM) providers, and System
Fault Management providers for HP-UX. These agents provide management information and alerts (indications)
to the CMS. The
agent (service) then enables the HP SIM CMS to log in to the managed system to
execute commands through scripts.
System collections
System collections provide a way to group systems in the HP SIM database. A collection can be used to
filter systems that share common attributes, such as operating system type or hardware type. System collections
can also be arbitrary collections of systems. Systems can belong to one or more system collections. Many
default shared system collections are provided, and you can create your own shared and private collections.
Working with system collections increases your efficiency because you can perform a task on each system
in a system collection with a single step. See
for a complete list of all shared
system collections.
Web-browser clients
HP SIM can be accessed from any browser client. The network client can be part of the management domain.
The network clients must be running a compatible browser to access the
or an
client application
to securely access the
. Access to the web server on the CMS can be restricted to specific IP address
ranges for specific users.
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