HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 212)

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:
• 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.
• 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 .
212 Default system tasks