HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 142)

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:
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Retrieves software and firmware inventory from systems.
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Determines the software and firmware update status.
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Sorts versions in the database .
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Hardware Status Polling. Used to track system status:
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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.
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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.
142 Default system tasks