HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 174)

Central Management Server
Resource-intensive applications such as HP Insight Control performance management have sometimes
encountered problems working with large numbers of systems. In an effort to improve the stability
of the CMS, HP SIM imposes a limit of 2000 systems on the information that is provided to these
applications. This limit can be changed, if necessary, by adding a new property named
MaxNodesViaSOAP to globalsettings.props and setting it to the desired number of systems.
Setting MaxNodesViaSOAP to a negative number disables the limit checking. In some cases,
setting this limit to a number greater than 2,000, or disabling the limit, can results in errors, including
the possibility of HP SIM hanging or crashing.
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Installing the CMS on Windows uses the user desktop locale to determine the CMS locale. For
example, if you install the CMS on a German Windows system and the user desktop locale happens
to be English, then the CMS installed becomes an English CMS.
The language of mxlog.txt (a log file) currently depends on the CMS locale. If the installer user
desktop locale is German, mxlog.txt is logged in German, even though the CMS is installed
on an English Windows system and the browser locale is also English.
This happens because the Log On As property of the HP SIM service is configured as the install
user name, instead of Local System, which specifies system environment. Running the service with
the credentials of the user that installed the application is necessary for the service to have the
necessary credentials for database access and other CMS settings.
If you want the logs to be in a different language (German or English), you have three options:
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Stop HP SIM service. Change the default locale of the user account specified in the Log On
As
property of the HP SIM service (the user that performed the install) to the desired language,
and restart the service.
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Stop HP SIM service. Change the Log On As user for the HP SIM service to the local
administrator account, and be sure its locale is set to the desired language. Restart the service.
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If you do not want to change the default locale of either of the previous accounts to the desired
language for the logs, create a new administrator-level account with the desired default locale.
Then uninstall HP SIM and reinstall HP SIM specifying the new administrator-level account.
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On a Windows NT 4.0 system running Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1, remotely browsing into
a CMS causes a DLL failure after being connected for hours. This issue occurs on a Windows CMS
and on an HP-UX CMS.
Complex systems displaying inconsistency with the number of nPars within
the complex
When viewing the complex through the System Page or Report, the number of nPars represent the
total number of nPars that can potentially be in the complex, regardless of the state of the individual
nPars. Alternatively, when viewing nPars within a complex under a system collection, the number
of nPars associated with a complex is equal to what HP SIM has determined through a WBEM
provider. Therefore, the number of nPars shown in the system collection might be less than or equal
to the number displayed in the System Page or Report.
Configure or Repair Agents
Configure or Repair Agents tasks that combine Critical, Unknown, and Unmanaged targeted
systems appear to hang at 0% but will eventually complete.
Data collection reports
Data Collection reports might report the network interface for HP-UX systems incorrectly. This is
due to an issue with SNMP agents on HP-UX. In the future, the HP-UX WBEM provider will include
a Link Aggregate Provider to report the network interface on HP-UX systems, and HP SIM can then
provide the correct data from the WBEM provider.
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