HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 63)

12 Monitoring systems
Viewing system collections
In HP SIM monitoring systems involves HP SIM polling Insight Management Advisor or firmware
on the managed systems to retrieve status information, and then displays this information as status
icons. There are several types of status that can be displayed, such as Health Status (HW), Software
Versioning Status (SW), or Management Processor status (MP). Other status icons might be added
by plug-ins to HP SIM. These icons enable you to see, at a glance, the state of your systems.
Pages displaying system status
• System lists There are four system lists page views; table view, icon view, tree view, and
picture view (for racks and enclosures). Common in each view is the system name and system
status. To access the system list pages, select a collection or system from the System and
Event Collections
panel. The type of collection or system that you select determines the view
that appears.
— Table view The HS column on the system list page displays the overall system health
status , which is determined by the default Hardware Status Polling task and is a roll up
of all the status sources, which can be SNMP, WBEM, HTTP, and cluster status. The legend
shows how many systems in the view are Critical, Major, Minor, Normal, Disabled, and
Unknown.
— Icon view The icon view lists the system name of all discovered systems, as well as the
system health status for each system. The legend shows how many systems in the view
are Critical, Major, Minor, Normal, Disabled, and Unknown.
— Tree view The tree view displays the health status icon and the system name for each
system in a tree format.
— Picture view The picture view page for racks and enclosures contains a picture view
of the discovered systems in the rack or enclosure if available. While signed in to HP
SIM, placing your cursor over a server shown in the view displays information on that
particular server, including
server blade name, slot number, and the enclosure in which
the server is located. You can also click a component name to display detailed information
about the component.
In all views, you can select the checkbox next to the system name to select a system. You can
select more than one system, or to select an entire collection, select the checkbox, Select
"collection name" itself
.
• System pages On the System Page, System tab, a status icon indicates the overall health
status stored in the database. If system monitoring is suspended, a disabled icon appears in
place of the hardware status icon and software status icon. The System Status section
contains more information on the
system status.
You can access the System Page one of the following ways:
— Select Tools
→System Information→System Page, and then select a target system.
— Click the system name in the System Name column on the system table view page.
• Property pages The Property page Status tab displays WBEM properties that help
determine the status of the target system, such as determining memory status and process
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