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HP Systems Insight Manager, now the core of the ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack, maximizes system uptime, reduces total cost of ownership, and provides powerful monitoring and control of your HP ProLiant and Integrity Servers along with StorageWorks devices. HP SIM delivers all of the capabilities of Insight Manager 7, including Version Control for Linux. The enhancements fall into four primary categories:
- Industry-leading cross-platform management capabilities
- Robust integration with HP and off-the shelf management tools
- More granular security
- Improved set-up and ease of use
Industry-leading cross-platform management capabilities: With HP SIM, HP is the first systems vendor to provide consistent management across its Windows, Linux, and Unix server platforms. This helps IT organizations consolidate the hardware management that has traditionally been conducted by separate Windows, Unix, and Linux management teams, improving the efficiency of IT operations and allowing scarce IT resources to focus on innovation instead of everyday server maintenance.
Robust integration with HP and off-the shelf management tools: HP SIM helps bring together management of client systems, printers, storage arrays, and power products through integration with HP Client Manager Software, HP CommandView Array Managers, HP Web JetAdmin, and HP Rack and Power Manager. It also simplifies access to lifecycle management tools such as the ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack, Ignite-UX, Software Distributor UX, and the ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack. In addition, simple XML-based tool definition files facilitate access to and control of custom scripts, operating system commands, and other off-the-shelf management applications from within HP SIM.
More granular security: Need to restrict user access to specific systems or specific management functionality? Role-based security in HP SIM helps administrators efficiently delegate management tasks to the correct individuals without giving them access to sensitive features or servers outside their span of control.
Improved set-up and ease of use: HP SIM delivers important improvements in ease of use. Automated Event Handling helps systems administrators configure policy-based responses to events issued by selected systems. Initial ProLiant Support Pack and Secure Shell (SSH) Deployment tasks enable administrators to install agents and SSH infrastructure on groups of systems without ever entering the data center. In addition to the graphical user interface, HP SIM provides an extensive command line interface (CLI).
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The following table lists HP SIM features that are new and improved for Insight Manager 7 users.
| New or improved features from migrating to HP SIM
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| Central management server |
New on Linux, HP - UX |
| Cross-platform management |
New on HP-UX |
| Auto-discovery |
Improved |
| Secure remote management |
Improved SSH |
| Role-based security |
New |
| Distributed tasks |
New |
| Inventory management |
Improved snapshots |
| Fault management/notification |
Improved |
| System software maintenance |
Improved |
| Command line |
New |
| Extensibility |
New |
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Prerequisites
You must be running Insight Manager 7 SP2.3. If you are not check the Insight Manager 7 User Guide for information on upgrading IM7 to IM7 SP2.3 or go to the Insight Manager 7 download page.
Migration overview
Transitioning from IM7 to HP SIM is not an upgrade in the traditional sense - you do not directly install HP SIM over IM7. HP provides a migration from IM7 to HP SIM through a configuration data migration tool - the DMT. The DMT operates independently of the HP SIM installation, but the DMT is integrated into the overall installation experience. For a complete overview of migrating from IM7 to HP SIM refer to the "Migrating from Insight Manger 7 to HP SIM 4.2" white paper at the HP SIM Information Library page.
Migration instructions
Migrating data from Insight Manager 7 SP2.3 to HP Systems Insight Manager 5.1 is comprised of two main phases.
- Migrate to HP SIM 4.2
- Download and run the full install for HP SIM on the HP SIM - Windows 4.2 download page.
- During installation of HP SIM 4.2 the configuration data migration tool (DMT) is initiated to export your IM7 data and import it to HP SIM 4.2.
- After installation log in to HP SIM to review all changes and to complete the migration process.
- Upgrade HP SIM 4.2 to HP SIM 5.1
- Download and run the latest version of HP SIM 5.1 on the HP SIM - Windows 5.1 download page.
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