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HP SIM is the foundation for HP's unified server-storage management strategy.
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Installation
- Replaced MSDE in HP SIM Windows installation with SQL 2005 Express Edition with Service Pack 2.
- Added Central Management Server (CMS) and managed system support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista.
- Streamlined installation by removing HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability & Patch Management Pack and HP Performance Management Pack from the default installation set.
- Added support for silent installation for Oracle database.
First Time Wizard
- Simple or Fully Qualified Domain Names host names can be included in ping inclusion and exclusion ranges for discovery.
- Discovering and identifying the HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008 for getting a rich set of hardware information for HP ProLiant hardware.
- Ability to discover all nPars in a complex, including those not currently active, from information gathered in one nPar.
Security
Multiple names in SSL web server certificate to alleviate name mismatch errors by the browser when using different names for the system.
Users & authorizations
HP SIM allows for any user to be configured to have access to features like discovery, view audit logs, automatic event handling and more. In addition, there is a single setting to enable users to add or update security settings on HP SIM.
Discovery and identification
- Streamlined the application by enabling you to specify the operating systems that are managed in your environment.
- Discovering and identifying the HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008 for getting a rich set of hardware information for HP ProLiant hardware.
- Ability to discover all nPars in a complex, including those not currently active, from information gathered in one nPar.
Setting up managed systems
HP SIM features have been enhanced to make setting up managed systems an easier task, and the new Manage Communications feature enables you to troubleshoot communication problems between the CMS and the managed systems.
Discovery and identification
- Streamlined the application by enabling you to specify the operating systems that are managed in your environment.
- Discovering and identifying the HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008 for getting a rich set of hardware information for HP ProLiant hardware.
- Ability to discover all nPars in a complex, including those not currently active, from information gathered in one nPar.
License Manager
- Extended support for SSH and CLP to include iLO 2 specific extensions.
- Added license transfer with iLO 2 using the License Manager menu functions in the Graphical User Interface (GUI).
- Added a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for input of SSH credentials.
Reporting
- New HP Version Control Agent report that displays baseline information.
- Added data collection of software/firmware (sw/fw) baseline name and version for systems that have a Version Control Agent (VCA) installed.
Navigation
- The tool search feature provides a quick way to find a tool.
- The Quick Launch menu provides single click access to frequently used tools and can be customized to select which tools are displayed in the menu.
- You can maximize and can also restore the workspace to the default size with a single click.
Task Wizard
- Improved performance.
- Added ability to select target systems using a search tool.
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- Central point of integration between the entire infrastructure and Enterprise management tools such as HP OpenView
- Simplify and consolidate infrastructure management
- Enabler for Infrastructure automation and virtualization
- Enables the structuring of IT management around business processes not hardware platforms
- Through the use of industry standards, HP SIM supports both HP and non-HP device management support
- Lowers infrastructure maintenance cost and frees resources for innovation
- Reduce costs and maximize resource utilization with virtualization technologies
- Automate error-prone manual processes
- Unify management, simplify integration, and protect IT investments through standards
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- Warranty and contract retrieval and reporting for your servers and storage saves time, eliminates manual processes, and can cut support costs
- Service Essentials Remote Support Pack can automatically initiate support cases to HP and provide detailed troubleshooting advice including repair videos
- Facilitate collaboration between islands of management
- Reduce costs deploying, managing change and allocating server/storage resources
- Consistent security model across management domains
- Reduce reliance on resource intensive, error prone manual processes through effective infrastructure automation
- Make faster, more efficient decisions and more easily troubleshoot complex problems that span server and storage infrastructure using a single, consolidated, consistent source of information
- Increase efficiency -- focus less on daily maintenance and more on meeting future tactical and strategic needs through innovation and planning
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- Efficiency through shared components eliminates redundant processes that waste computing bandwidth and other resources
- Easy to scale features offering value-add modules for servers, blades and storage
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HP Essentials improves your ability to quickly integrate new technologies in response to changing conditions using ProLiant Essentials, Integrity Essentials, and Storage Essentials plug-in applications.
- Implement unified infrastructure management in stages
- Match infrastructure supply to workload demand through effective infrastructure virtualization.
- Choose and easily integrate the value-added software components relevant to your specific environment. Add new functionality only as and when needed.
- Reduce reliance on resource intensive, error prone manual processes through effective infrastructure automation
- Automatically add or remove blade servers to maintain optimum user experience
- Improve the utilization of your server environment by quickly moving computing power where it is needed
- More efficiently integrate storage through the use of automatic storage provisioning
- Accelerate identification and resolution of problems across mgmt. domains
- Simplify and improve response times when managing server-storage infrastructure alerts
- Streamline infrastructure asset management
- Simplify IT infrastructure security practice
- Consolidate and maintain one database for entire IT infrastructure
- Save training and implementation costs
- Learn once, eliminate training IT staff multiple infrastructure management tools
- Provide more effective cross-training between domains of expertise
- Safely deliver powerful lifecycle management to the correct staff functions
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Available with your HP SIM 5.1 and HP SIM 5.2 installation!
- Available at no additional cost - You can take advantage of the Remote Support Pack for use with servers and storage devices that are covered by warranty, or HP Support contracts or HP Care Packs.
- Recover quickly from unpredictable failures - Equipment with remote monitoring is restored, on average, 20% faster due to quicker problem detection, better diagnosis, and more rapid initiation of repair.
- Get accurate problem diagnosis - Cases detected and diagnosed through remote monitoring have shown an almost 100% record of fixing the problem the first time, due to the availability of detailed diagnostic information.
- Make better use of people resources - By automating your support processes to operate 24x7, you allow your IT personnel to focus on core business activities instead of detecting system failures and collecting data.
- Automate support - With the tools delivered through the HP Service Essentials Remote Support Pack plug-in, you can automate your entire support process for fault detection, and automatically generate support requests.
- Become future ready - The HP Service Essentials Remote Support Pack plug-in will enable you to automatically download a package of integrated tools to your CMS. The level of automation is under your control. This allows you to quickly and easily take advantage of all of the latest enhancements and features, e.g. new analysis rule sets for Open Service Event Manager (OSEM) and Web-Based Enterprise Services (WEBES). This feature will also enable you to upgrade in the future to new releases that will expand the product coverage, extend data collection capabilities for reactive and proactive analysis, including Mission Critical support capabilities.
- Be proactive - Because remote monitoring avoids potential disruptions caused by unplanned downtime, you can operate in a proactive manner. Instead of reacting to problems, you monitor activity and plan interventions at your convenience.
- Integrate your IT management – The Service Essentials Remote Support Pack is tightly integrated with HP System Insight Manager (SIM). You get an integrated view of all your IT operations, enabling you to streamline and improve.
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