HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 218)

Version Status Polling for Systems no Longer Disabled
This task runs the software version tool when a system changes from a disabled state to an enabled
state so that the status of the software loaded on the system is kept current in HP SIM.
Check Event Configuration
This task checks event configuration on all systems and is scheduled to run every day. The Weekly
Check Event Configuration task can be edited.
Status polling
Polling tasks track system health status for systems in the system list. They provide a simple means
of assessing system health in the event that an SNMP trap or other event was not properly delivered
to the management console. Hardware status polling must occur continuously to determine when
systems go offline or performance degrades. You can customize polling tasks for specific systems
to run at scheduled times. You can also create new polling tasks with different system or event lists
to match your specific requirements.
The following default polling tasks exist:
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Software Status Polling.
Used to determine software version update status. This task is set to run every seven days, on
Wednesday at midnight, by default. You can edit the task and run it at any time. This task
performs the following functions:
◦ Retrieves software and firmware inventory from systems.
◦ Determines the software and firmware update status.
◦ Sorts versions in the database.
To access Software Status Polling, select Options
→Status Polling→Software Status Polling.
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Hardware Status Polling.
Used to track system status:
◦ Hardware Status Polling for Non servers. Used to collect status information for target
systems that are not of a server, cluster, or management processor type. This task is
configured to poll every 10 minutes and at startup by default. It does not send status
change events.
◦ Hardware Status Polling for Servers . Used to collect status information for SNMP systems
of type server, cluster, or management processor. This task is configured to poll every 5
minutes and at startup by default. It sends status change events that can be used set up
a notification task based on the event.
To access Hardware Status Polling, select Options
→Status Polling→Hardware Status Polling.
218 Default system tasks