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Success stories


»  New study by IDC indicates customers receive a return on investment on HP SIM of less than 6 months
HP recently engaged leading analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) to conduct a study of real HP customers using HP Systems Insight Manager and the results are remarkable if not unexpected. Citing savings in the areas of IT Staff Productivity, User Support Time and Productivity Loss Avoidance, customers on average saved $35,000 over 3 years per 100 users.

»  HP IT Group Utilizes HP SIM in Consolidation Effort
This brief from HP-IT highlights HP SIM in conjunction with the consolidation effort to reduce from 85 data centers to 6. It highlights the process of creating and managing virtual technologies, deployment of HP ProLiant and storage solutions, then monitoring and managing the entire environment to reduce the total cost of ownership.

»  Sunrise Health Region
This health care entity takes full advantage of HP SIM to manage their IT environment.

»  HP Systems Insight Manager: One Console to Rule Them All (from Illuminata) (pdf)
Illuminata praises HP's delivery of a unified infrastructure management tool that is way ahead of the competition and supports HP's Adaptive Enterprise vision.

»  HP Ties Server & Storage Management Together (from Enterprise Strategy Group) (pdf)
This brief from ESG highlights HP's management stack including HP SIM, Storage Essentials, ProLiant Essentials, Virtual Server Environment and OpenView. HP SIM provides the next generation of server and storage management integration in a unified platform management solution.

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HP SIM videos


Several informative videos showcasing HP Systems Insight Manager and HP infrastructure software, including our Essentials plug-ins. Quick and easy to view!

Highlighted products Description
Energy-efficient computing with virtualization
New!


» play (3:47 mins)
In data centers around the world energy consumption is rising and energy costs are a growing portion of IT budgets. Paul Gottsegen discusses how to use virtualization to be more efficient.
The benefits of virtualizing your IT infrastructure
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» play (4:35 mins)
Paul Gottsegen explains how virtualization helps pool and share IT resources to reduce costs, make your IT infrastructures more flexible and assure supply automatically meets demand.
Developing a virtualization strategy
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» play (4:08 mins)
Nick van der Zweep explains the advantages using virtualization to address people, processes and technology, and to align IT resources to the needs of your business in powerful new ways.
HP Systems Insight Manager New HP SIM 5.1


» play (4:48 mins)
Jeff Carlat describes the latest HP SIM enhancements to help you manage a complete HP server and storage environment with a feature rich, extensible and secure management tool set.
Unified Infrastructure Management

» play (4:49 mins)
Learn how Unified Infrastructure Management delivers more common and streamlined business processes across the IT organization.
HP Systems Insight Manager

» play (3:16 mins)
HP SIM is designed as a core component for managing HP's diverse product line of computing devices, and can also manage other servers and storage.
HP SIM and HP ProLiant Essentials

» play (4:48 mins)
Lee Johns provides details on how HP ProLiant Essentials extends the monitoring and configuration capabilities of HP SIM for a small business up to the largest enterprise.
HP SIM and HP BladeSystem management

» play (4:15 mins)
Lee Johns reveals how the next-generation HP Blade System c-Class delivers a comprehensive platform that brings together server, storage, power and cooling and networking.
HP SIM and HP Integrity Essentials

» play (4:15 mins)
HP Integrity Essentials is part of a unified server and storage management providing a single tool for managing virtual & physical infrastructures.
HP SIM and HP Storage Essentials

» play (5:07 mins)
Storage Essentials effectively manages HP & non-HP storage products and eliminates many time-consuming, error-prone and inflexible management practices.


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Install and configure


»  Configuration information for sizing your SIM server (Requires HP Passport)
»  Deploying HP SIM 5.x on MSCS Clusters on Windows (pdf)
 
HP SIM 5.2:
»  Readme (txt)
»  Release Notes (pdf)
»  Release Notes (html)
 • SIM Windows Installation and Configuration Guide    » pdf      » html
 • SIM Linux Installation and Configuration Guide            » pdf      » html
 • SIM HP-UX Installation and Configuration Guide          » pdf      » html
 
»  Getting started with HP SIM 5.2 in a smaller Windows environment (pdf)
»  HP ProLiant Essentials Management Software Installation and Configuration Guide (pdf)

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How to use


HP SIM documents:
»  HP SIM 5.2 Technical Reference Guide (pdf)
»  Automation of two HP SIM 5.1 or greater servers to provide Failover Event Handling (pdf)
»  Backing up and restoring HP SIM 5.2 data files in a Windows environment (pdf)
»  Backing up and restoring HP SIM 5.2 data files in an HP-UX or Linux environment (pdf)
»  Building an HP SIM 5.x server on a Linux-based Serviceguard Cluster (pdf)
»  Changing the HP SIM 5.x System Name (pdf)   (for Windows)
»  Collections in HP Systems Insight Manager 5.1 or greater (pdf)
»  Compiling and Customizing SNMP MIBs with HP SIM (pdf)
»  Deploying HP SIM 5.x on MSCS Clusters (pdf)
»  Creating custom tool definition files for HP SIM 5.1 or greater (pdf)
»  HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP SIM 5.2 (pdf)
»  HP Insight Power Manager (pdf)
»  HP SIM 5.2 Command Line Interface Guide (pdf)
»  How to manage non-HP servers with HP SIM (pdf)   (for Windows)
»  Installing and Configuring HP Integrity VM on HP SIM 5.x (pdf)
»  Infrastructure management using the HP SIM command line interface (pdf)
»  Managing your HP-UX Inventory with HP SIM (pdf)   (for HP-UX)
»  Moving HP SIM 5.2 to a new Windows system (pdf)   (for Windows)
»  Setting up HP SIM 5.x on an HP-UX Serviceguard Cluster (pdf)   (for HP-UX)
»  Setting up HP SIM 5.x on an Linux Serviceguard Cluster (pdf)    (for Linux)
»  WBEM Event Subscription for HP-UX Systems Managed by HP SIM 5.x (pdf)   (for HP-UX)
 
Related product documents:
»  Service Essentials Remote Support Pack
»  System Management Homepage for HP ProLiant
»  Version Control documents for HP ProLiant and Integrity Systems

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Migrate to HP SIM


The documents below provide an overview and the necessary steps to migrate from Insight Manager to HP SIM. Please select the appropriate document based on the version of Insight Manager you are currently running.

NOTE: If you are running Insight Manager 7, you will need to migrate to HP SIM 4.2 first before upgrading to HP SIM 5.0.

»  Migrating from Insight Manager 7 to HP SIM 4.2 (pdf)   (for Windows)
»  Migrating from Compaq Insight Manager (WIN32) to HP SIM (pdf)   (for Windows)

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Integrate HP SIM with other products


»  HP SIM and HP OpenView: Working Better Together to Deliver End-to-End Management (pdf)
»  Implementing power management products with HP SIM (pdf)
»  Integrating HP Openview Operations, HP SIM 5.x and Insight Management Agents (pdf)
»  Integrating HP OpenView Service Desk and HP SIM (pdf)
»  Integrating HP OpenView Service Desk and HP SIM - Additional resources (zip)
»  Integrating HP SIM 5.1 or greater and HP OpenView Select Access (pdf)   (for Windows)

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Advanced management features


»  HP Systems Insight Manager Features Customization for Windows Environment (pdf)
»  HP SIM 5.1 or greater Discovery Cases for c-Class BladeSystems in HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager (pdf)
»  Managing HP servers through firewalls with HP SIM 5.x (pdf)
»  ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack documents
»  Secure Shell (SSH) in HP SIM 5.x (pdf)
»  Understanding HP SIM 5.x Security (pdf)

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Man pages


The following man pages have been updated to work with HP SIM 5.1. Not all commands or options will work with previous versions.

»  HP SIM 5.2 Command Line Interface Reference Guide (pdf)
»  Infrastructure management using the HP SIM command line interface (pdf)

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» mxagentconfig.1m.html
» mxauth.1m.html
» mxauth.4.html
» mxcategoryitem.4.html
» mxcert.1m.html
» mxcollection.1m.html
» mxcollection.4.html
» mxdomainmgr.1m.html
» mxdtf.1m.html
» mxexec.1m.html
» mxgethostname.1m.html
» mxgetdbinfo.1m.html
» mxglobalprotocolsettings.1m.html
» mxglobalprotocolsettings.4.html
» mxglobalsettings.1m.html
» mxinitconfig.1m.html
» mxlog.1m.html
» mxmib.1m.html
» mxngroup.1m.html
» mxngroup.4.html
» mxnode.1m.html
» mxnode.4.html
» mxnodesecurity.1m.html
» mxnodesecurity.4.html
» mxoracleconfig.1m.html
» mxpassword.1m.html
» mxquery.1m.html
» mxquery.4.html
» mxreport.1m.html
» mxreport.4.html
» mxstart.1m.html
» mxstm.1m.html
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» mxtask.1m.html
» mxtask.4.html
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» mxtoolbox.1m.html
» mxtoolbox.4.html
» mxuser.1m.html
» mxuser.4.html
» mxwbemsub.1m.html

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Archives


»  HP SIM 5.1 documentation
»  HP SIM 5.0 documentation
»  HP SIM 4.2 documentation
»  Insight Manager 7 documents

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