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The table view lists the system name and type and sorts information into columns. The legend shows how many systems in the view are Critical, Major, Minor, Normal, Disabled, and Unknown. Place your cursor over a column name for a brief description of that column. For more information regarding table view, see the HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html.

Table View

System View Columns

Sort columns by clicking the column header for ascending or descending order. Place your cursor over a column name for a brief description of the column. The columns are not available when you select the icons view. See:

Selection

Select the checkbox in this column to select a system. You can select more than one system. This option is available in the table view, tree view, and icon view. Select the checkbox in the column heading to select or deselect all displayed systems. To select all of the HP BladeSystem components, select the checkbox Select "HP BladeSystem" itself.

System Name

This column contains the actual system name of all discovered systems. Systems can be shown as a single system or as a system in a container. When you place the cursor over the system name, the full system Domain Name Service (DNS) name is shown, which helps differentiate between two or more systems that share the same system name. If you click the system name link, the System Page appears. If you click a system that is a container (rack or enclosure), the picture view for that object displays.

The System Name column displays systems along with their associated devices. The following list shows the associations available in HP Systems Insight Manager:

  • Management processor to server

  • Server to enclosure

  • Management processor to enclosure

  • Enclosure to rack

  • Switch to enclosure

  • System to cluster

The following system types are containers:

  • Rack

  • Enclosure

  • Cluster

When servers and management processors in racks and enclosures are discovered and identified, associations are made between the systems and the racks and enclosures in which they reside. This association displays in the System Name column on the system table view page by showing name in system type container name.

Clicking an enclosure name in the System Name column produces a list of all discovered systems in the selected enclosure. The status for both racks and enclosures is always Unknown.

When switches in blade enclosures are discovered and identified, associations are made between the switches and the enclosures in which they reside. This association appears in the System Name column on the system table view page by showing switch_name in Encl. enclosure_name. The System Type column displays Switch as the system type. For HP Systems Insight Manager to identify and manage the HP ProLiant p-Class server blades correctly, the HP Insight Management Agent 5.50 or later must be installed on the blades to make associations work and event correlation function properly.

When a server blade is identified through another system in the same rack or enclosure, associations are made between the iLO and the enclosures in which they reside. This association appears in the System Name column on the system table view page by showing the system serial number prepended with Server_ in Encl. enclosure_name. For example, Server_C349KJP5D876 in Encl. Encl4. The system address, product name, and operating system are not displayed for these systems.

To launch HP Serviceguard Manager to manage the server belonging to an HP Serviceguard cluster, be sure that:

  • HP Serviceguard Manager is installed and registered with HP Systems Insight Manager

  • The system selected is an HP-UX or Linux server that belongs to an HP Serviceguard cluster

Health Status

The health status column (indicated by HS) displays the overall system health status, which is determined by the default Hardware Status Polling task. By clicking the status icon in this column, the HP Management Agents or the HP Instant Toptools for Servers page displays. If the system does not have Web Agents or Instant Toptools installed, the System Page displays.

The hardware status displayed for container systems, such as Serviceguard or a complex, it is the actual hardware status for the container itself. For clusters, it is the ping status.

Management Processor

The management processor column (indicated by MP) displays the status icon of the management processor, if the system has an Integrated Lights-Out Board (iLO) installed. Otherwise, the Informational icon is displayed. Clicking on the status icon displays the System Page for the management processor.

Software Status

The software status column (indicated by SW), available for servers only, indicates both the availability of software updates and how critical they are.

If you click an Unknown status, HP Systems Insight Manager displays the Legacy Version Control page.

If HP Version Control Agent is installed on the system, clicking the software status icon for that system displays HP Version Control Agent Software Inventory page. If you hover your cursor over the status icon and the VCA is not installed on the system, a message appears that states Version Control Agent not found.

ProLiant Essentials Provisioning and Recovery Pack

The ProLiant Essentials Provisioning and Recovery Pack status column (indicated by PR) indicates whether the system has been licensed and registered for control by the Provisioning and Recovery Pack. By clicking the status icon in this column, the Provisioning and Recovery Pack page for the selected system displays providing more detailed information.

HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack

The HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP) status column (indicated by PF) displays the cumulative performance status of all monitored subsystems for the system. By clicking the status icon in this column, the HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack page for the selected system displays, providing more detailed performance information.

If the PMP is not installed on the HP Systems Insight Manager system, this column does not display on the system table view page.

If the PMP is not monitoring a server, the status is Unknown. If you click the status link, the PMP displays a page with information about purchasing a license to monitor that system or shows notification that PMP monitoring is not supported on that system.

For the PF column, a status appears for all systems from the All Servers list. If the status cannot be determined for some reason, the status is set to Unknown.

HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack

VPM vulnerability information is displayed in the VPM column of the HP Systems Insight Manager console. Initially, the icon depicted in the column displays VPM eligibility information for the target system in the specific row. After target servers are licensed and a vulnerability scan is performed, the column displays the combined status of the last vulnerability scan on the target system (patch status is not displayed in the column). Click the icon to display detailed information about the system status with regard to VPM. Clicking the Normal, Minor, or Major icons opens a new informational page where the last scan results for the system can be accessed. A new scan can also be launched from this page. Clicking the Unknown icon for a system displays an explanatory page listing possible reasons why VPM.

If VPM is not installed on the HP Systems Insight Manager system, the Informational icon appears in the VPM column on the system table view page. Clicking this icon displays information on how to install VPM and purchase licenses.

If the system is not licensed or has not yet been scanned by VPM, the Informational icon appears in the VPM column. Clicking this icon either displays details about licensing the target system and a link to the HP Systems Insight Manager License Manager or information about vulnerability scanning and a link to scan for or patch vulnerabilities on the target system.

HP ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack

HP ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack (Virtual Machine Management Pack) status column (indicated by VM Status) displays the cumulative status of all Virtual Machine Hosts and Virtual Machine Guests. Clicking the status icon on the VM Status column displays the HP ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack page for the selected system, providing more information on the status of the Virtual Machine.

When Virtual Machine Management Pack is not installed on the HP Systems Insight Manager system, this column does not appear on the All Systems system table view page. Similarly, if HP ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack is uninstalled, the VM Status is no longer updated in the HP Systems Insight Manager console.

For systems with type as Server and subtype as Virtual Machine Host or Virtual Machine Guest, HP Systems Insight Manager populates the VM Status column with appropriate status icons.

System Type

This column displays the system type, for example, Server, or Desktop. The system type Unmanaged indicates systems that have no management protocol that HP Systems Insight Manager could detect, for example, no Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), Desktop Management Interface (DMI), or Secure Shell (SSH). The system type Unknown indicates systems that have some management protocol but have not matched any identification rule in HP Systems Insight Manager.

Unmanaged systems might indicate that the credentials were not set correctly in order to communicate with the system. If you know that there are HP Insight Management Agents installed, verify the credentials used.

Operating System Name

The operating system column (indicated by OS Name) displays the operating system on the system. For a Serviceguard cluster, this column displays either HP Serviceguard if the cluster is of type HP-UX or HP Serviceguard for Linux if the cluster is of type Linux. HP Serviceguard and HP Serviceguard for Linux under the OS Name column of the virtual cluster system column do not represent the actual operating system name and type. This field is used to let you know the servers that make up the cluster are of HP-UX or Linux type, respectively.

System Address

This column displays the primary IP addresses of the system that HP Systems Insight Manager uses to communicate with the system. Not all systems have and IP address, including HP Serviceguard clusters.

Product Name

This column displays the product name of the system.

System List Buttons

Three buttons at the bottom of the system table view page are available to users with full-configuration-rights. These buttons are not available when using a tool and selecting an individual target system.

  • [Save selection as]. When a system is highlighted, this button is used to save the selection with a new name. Changes are saved on a per-user, per-collection basis.

  • [Delete]. This button is used to delete one or more systems from the database. Select the systems to be deleted, and click [Delete]. A dialog box appears. Click [OK] to continue with the deletion or click [Cancel] to cancel the operation.

  • [Print]. When the report is displayed, select FilePrint from the browser menu to print the report.

    Because certain print options are not supported in HP Systems Insight Manager, you cannot:

    • Change the Orientation to Landscape in the Print dialog box (see Printing Problems in the Troubleshooting section of HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide for a workaround to this issue)

    • Cancel printing after the print job has been executed, but you can access the operating systems print queue and cancel the print job

    • Print to a file

    • Print selected systems, only entire list of systems

    • Print the system table view page if you close the browser immediately after issuing a print request

Buttons are disabled if you do not have appropriate rights. However, the [Print] button appears for all users.

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