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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.

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

»  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, Insight software, 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!

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Energy-efficient computing with virtualization


» 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


» 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


» 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


» 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 Insight software

» play (4:48 mins)
Lee Johns provides details on how HP Insight software 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.

Technical Videos


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HP SIM Quick Start Overview
New!


» play (9:30 mins)
HP Systems Insight Manager is the clear choice for managing HP servers and storage devices by being the easiest, simplest, and least expensive way for HP system administrators to maximize system uptime and health. This video will demonstrate the easiest way to get the HP SIM server configured and the managed environment setup correctly to communicate to HP SIM via the Configure and Repair Agents setting feature.


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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 5.3:
»  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 5.3 in a smaller Windows environment (pdf)
»  Configuring HP SIM for Optimal Performance in a Large Environment (pdf) New!

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How to use


HP SIM documents:
»  HP SIM 5.3 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 or greater data files in a Windows environment (pdf)
»  Backing up and restoring HP SIM 5.2 or greater data files in an HP-UX or Linux environment (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)
»  Creating custom tool definition files for HP SIM 5.1 or greater (pdf)
»  Deploying HP SIM 5.x on MSCS clusters on MS Windows 2003 with SQL Server 2005 (pdf) New!
»  Deploying HP SIM 5.x on MSCS clusters on MS Windows 2008 with SQL Server 2005 (pdf) New!
»  Deploying HP SIM 5.x on MSCS clusters on MS Windows 2008 with SQL Server 2008 (pdf) New!
»  HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP SIM 5.3 (pdf)
»  HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP SIM 5.3 Support Matrix (pdf)
»  HP Insight Power Manager (pdf)
»  HP SIM Command Interface Guide (pdf)
»  How to manage non-HP servers with HP SIM (pdf)   (for Windows)
»  How to Move HP SIM SQL 2005 Database (pdf)   (for Windows) New!
»  Installing and Configuring HP SIM 5.x on HP Integrity VM (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.x 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 a Linux based Serviceguard Cluster (pdf)   New!
»  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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Integrate HP SIM with other products


»  HP Operations Manager and HP Systems Insight Manager Integration (pdf) New!
»  Implementing power management products with HP SIM (pdf)
»  Integrated extensions for HP SIM (pdf) New!
»  Integrating HP OpenView Service Desk and HP SIM (pdf)
»  Integrating HP OpenView Service Desk and HP SIM - Additional resources (zip)
»  Integrating HP SIM 5.2 or greater and HP Select Access (pdf)   (for Windows)

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Advanced management features


»  HP Systems Insight Manager Features Customization for Windows Environment (pdf)
»  HP SIM 5.2 or greater Discovery Cases for c-Class BladeSystems in HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager (pdf)
»  Insight software Performance Management Pack documents
»  Secure Shell (SSH) in HP SIM 5.3 (pdf)
»  Understanding HP SIM 5.3 Security (pdf)
»  Managing HP servers through firewalls with Insight Software (pdf) New!

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Man pages


The following man pages have been updated to work with HP SIM 5.3. Not all commands or options will work with previous versions.

» mcompile.1m.html
» 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
» mxstop.1m.html
» mxtask.1m.html
» mxtask.4.html
» mxtool.1m.html
» mxtool.4.html
» mxtoolbox.1m.html
» mxtoolbox.4.html
» mxuser.1m.html
» mxuser.4.html
» mxwbemsub.1m.html

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Archives


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