What's new?

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 and Patch Management Pack and HP Performance Management Pack from the default installation set
Added support for silent installation for Oracle database

First Time Wizard

Streamlined the application by enabling you to specify the operating systems that are managed in your environment, resulting in collections, reports, and tools for the selected operating systems only.
Ability to automatically configure managed systems as discovery runs.
Ability to test email configurations as e-mail settings are configured.

Security

Multiple names in SSL web server certificate to alleviate name mismatch errors by the browser when using different names for the system.

Users and 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

Simple or Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) 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.
Ability to discover all vPars in a vparmonitor, including those not currently active, from information gathered in one vPar.

Setting up managed systems

HP SIM features have been enhanced to make setting up managed systems an easier task.

The Configure or Repair Agents feature now includes the following enhancements:
- HP Insight Management Agents can be installed on ProLiant servers running Windows using the Initial HP ProLiant Support Pack task from a Windows Central Management Server (CMS).
- SNMP traps can be sent from the managed systems to check the trap reception in HP SIM CMS.
- WBEM indications can be sent from the managed systems that support WBEM providers and verifies reception in the HP SIM CMS running HP-UX.
- Configure Single Sign on to managed systems.
- Can install and configure HP Version Control Agent and Secure Shell (SSH) from Configure or Repair Agents.
- Can install and configure WBEM providers from Configure or Repair Agents.
The new Manage Communications feature enables you to troubleshoot communication problems between the CMS and the managed systems.

Data Collection

You can now collect and display instant capacity (iCAP) properties for Cells and Processors, for an iCAP enabled Complex, using Web based enterprise management (WBEM) protocol.

On ISS HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008 enabled managed nodes, data collection will give preference to HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008 over WMI/SNMP for certain attributes.




	NOTE: Currently, there is limited SNMP support in HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008. When data collection prefers over to HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008, a few of the items in the report that were collected from SNMP earlier would be blank.The iCAP provider is available on HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31), HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) and HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11) which can only be installed on HP 9000 and Integrity servers.

Added Horizontal discovery of node partitions (nPars) for cell-based Integrity servers or HP 9000 servers.
Added Horizontal discovery of virtual partitions (vPars) for cell-based HP-UX 9000 servers or procedure-based HP-UX 9000 servers.
Added Data collection of software/firmware (sw/fw) baseline name and version for systems that have a Version Control Agent (VCA) installed.

Automatic event handling

Support for new ProLiant WBEM indications Therefore, any event collection containing event type criteria having an SNMP trap that correlates to a WBEM indication will be upgraded and the WBEM indications will be selected.
User pager information can be specified when creating or managing automatic event handling tasks.

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 by entering text (often less than a single word) that is used to search and filter, textually, based on tool names, tool locations in the HP SIM cascading menu structure, and tool descriptions.
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.
Go back to link that returns you to the last viewed collection or tool, including the System Page.
You can maximize the workspace so that the System Status overview, Search, System and Event Collections panels, and the HP SIM menus are collapsed, and the banner is minimized. You 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.

Miscellaneous features

You can search software and firmware installed on HP-UX systems.
Property pages are implemented for HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008 and for OpenVMS providers. HP-UX Property pages have been updated to reflect new HP-UX providers.
Support on Property pages for HP-UX 11i.x, Linux Itanium Processor Family (IPF), Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Longhorn, and OpenVMS.