Glossary

A user who is authorized for the All Tools toolbox on all systems, including the Central Management Server. This type of user has been given special privileges to administer the HP SIM software.

A program that regularly gathers information or performs some other service without the user's immediate presence. HP SIM agents provide in-depth hardware and software information and subsystem status to HP SIM and numerous third-party management applications.

A user-configurable notification displayed in the System Status panel of HP SIM when certain events occur. For instance, if a monitored item changes, an alarm notifies the user that a change has occurred.

Displays all events that have occurred for all systems.

A default toolbox that provides complete access to all tools for the authorized system or system group.

A single characteristic of a manageable product or component, as in an attribute of a Management Information Format (MIF) file. A set of related attributes constitutes a group. For example, the clock speed of a processor chip is an attribute of a group that describes that chip.

The process of identifying an individual, based on a user name and password. Authentication is distinct from authorizations and ensures that the individual is who they claim to be.

A mapping of a relationship between a user, a toolbox, and a system or system group.

The process that HP SIM uses to find and identify systems on your network and populate the database with that information. A system must first be discovered to collect data and track system health status. The primary source for automatic discovery is ping sweeps configured in the automatic discovery tasks page. Other sources might include receiving events from unknown systems or from a management processor that has information about a server. Identification automatically runs on discovered systems.

A listing of the software components available in the repository to which the HP Version Control Agent (HP VCA) has been configured to point. When browsing directly into a HP VCA, these additional components can be selected for installation.

The section of the GUI at the top of the screen that includes the user name and links to the Home page and sign out functions.

A note to indicate that failure to follow directions could result in damage to equipment or loss of information.

A system in the management domain that executes the HP SIM software. All central operations within HP SIM are initiated from this system.

The rate for how often the Cluster Monitor CPU Resource checks CPU utilization as reported by HP Insight Management Agent on monitored systems.

An electronic document that contains a subject's public key and identifying information about the subject. The certificate is signed by a certificate authority (CA) to bind the key and subject identification together.

A trusted third-party organization or company that issues digital certificates used to create digital signatures and public-private key pairs. The role of the CA in this process is to guarantee that the individual who has been granted the unique certificate is the individual they claim to be.

A value used alone or with an encryption decoder (corresponding public or private key) for cryptography. In traditional private key cryptography, the communicators share a key or cipher so that each can encrypt and decrypt messages. The risk in this system is that if any party loses the key, the system is broken. In public key cryptography, the private key is associated with a public key, so each person in the system has a personal private key that is never shared.

A status condition that indicates an event is cleared.

Changing the event status from uncleared to cleared.

HP desktop, portable, and workstation systems.

A parallel or distributed computing system made up of many discrete systems that form a single, unified computing resource. Clusters vary in their features, complexity, and the purposes for which they are best suited.

The IP address of the cluster.

A core component of HP SIM. Cluster Monitor adds the ability to monitor and manage multi-node clusters. Cluster Monitor also manages multiple cluster platforms in a heterogeneous environment.

A program that provides a monitoring or management function for clustered nodes in a cluster.

Information about cluster systems. This information is stored in the database.

The method for grouping system or event.

A text-based application that can be executed from a command shell such as sh, csh, ksh or the Microsoft Windows CMD shell.

An object-oriented schema defined by the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF). CIM is an information model guide that describes and shares management information enterprise-wide. CIM is designed for extending each management environment in which it is used.

A CIMOM acts as the interface for communication between web-based enterprise management (WBEM) providers and management applications such as HP Systems Insight Manager. A CIMOM that provides an interface for an SMI-S provider is called an SMI CIMOM.

Computer systems that support multiple hardware partitions are referred to as a complex. For example, the HP Integrity Superdome systems support multiple hardware partitions within a single complex.

A component is a single, self-describing, installable (interactive or silent) binary file containing a single piece of software, such as firmware image, driver, agent, or utility, that is supported by the management and update tools.

The Survey Utility that contains reports that show configuration details for server and compares configuration history files for differences.

An HP SIM feature that enables you to repair credentials for SNMP settings and trust relationships that exist between HP SIM and target systems. You can also update Web Agent passwords on target systems that have 7.1 agents or earlier installed.

Sequences of instructions that are associated with a search, event, or both, such as Delete Events, Remove Disk Thresholds, Set Disk Threshold, and Set Device Access community strings.

A state generated when HP SIM can no longer communicate with a managed system.

Custom tools are tools that can be created by the user to run on the Central Management Server or on target systems. For example:

Data collection reports include information about discovered systems in a single instance or a historical trend analysis report. HP SIM supports Overwrite existing data set (for detailed analysis), formerly known as Single Instance Data Collection task in Insight Manager 7, and Append new data set (for historical trend analysis). With Overwrite existing data set (for detailed analysis), data is collected from a system at a single instance. With Append new data set (for historical trend analysis), data detailing the system history is collected.

Procedure that involves gathering information from a group of managed systems and storing that information in the database. HP SIM uses Hardware Status Polling and Data Collection Tasks to implement data collection.

An industry-standard protocol, primarily used in client management, established by the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF). DMI provides an efficient means of reporting client system problems. DMI-compliant computers can send status information to a central management system over a network.

An industry standard body that defines DMI and WBEM standards for the industry. HP is an active sponsor and participant in the DMTF body.

A technology used to validate the sender of a transaction. This technology uses private keys to digitally sign the data and public keys to verify the sender.

A feature within a management application that finds and identifies network objects. In HP management applications, discovery finds and identifies all the HP systems within a specified network range.

Enables users with to prevent or allow certain system types from ever being added to the database.

Files that can be used by automatic discovery in lieu of typing the addresses directly in to the Ping inclusion ranges or Exclusion ranges fields on the Automatic Discovery - General Settings page and are designed to be used as a quick way to change the scope of automatic discovery.

An extension of the Component Object Model (COM) that enables COM components to communicate between clients and servers on the same network.

A management application that manages the remote execution of tasks on managed systems.

A service that translates domain names into IP addresses.

One of the notification tasks in HP SIM that sends notifications through e-mail.

To modify existing collections to add or remove search criteria.

A physical container for a set of server blades. It consists of a backplane that routes power and communication signals and additional hardware for cabling and thermal issues. It also hosts the CPU or server power supplies.

Information sent to certain users that something in the managed environment has changed. Events are generated from SNMP traps. HP SIM receives a trap when an important event occurs. Events are defined as:

A chart that summarizes the events by product type.

Third-party application URLs.

A program interface that takes advantage of the graphics capabilities of the computer to make the program easier to use. The HP SIM GUI runs in a web browser.

Health status is an aggregate status all of the status sources (which can be SNMP, WBEM, DMI, and HTTP) with the most critical status being displayed.

A file that follows the UNIX, Linux, or Windows host file format, which is an IP address followed by a name and each system is listed on a separate line in this file. This file is used by discovery to manually add multiple systems to the HP SIM database,

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager is an HP SIM plugin that enables you to manage blade systems from HP SIM for Windows, HP-UX and Linux. HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager is composed of blade computer systems, integrated connectivity to data and storage networks, and shared power subsystems. The HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager enables you to quickly navigate your HP blade environments including server blades and desktops, enclosure infrastructures, racks, and integrated switches, through hierarchical tree views. Users are able to conveniently configure, deploy, and manage individual or groups of blade systems.

A program that regularly gathers information or performs some other service without the user's immediate presence.

An integrated power monitoring and management application that provides centralized control of server power consumption and thermal output at the datacenter level. It extends the capacity of datacenters by enabling the user to control the amount of power and cooling required for ProLiant servers. Built on ProLiant Power Regulator Technology, it extends new server energy instrumentation levers into HP SIM for greater Unified Infrastructure Management.

The all-in-one vulnerability assessment and patch management tool integrated into HP SIM, simplifying and consolidating the proactive identification and resolution of issues that can impact server availability into one central console.

System management software that is capable of managing a wide variety of systems, including HP systems, clusters, desktops, workstations, and portables.

HP SIM combines the strengths of Insight Manager 7, HP Toptools, and HP Servicecontrol Manager to deliver a single tool for managing HP ProLiant, Integrity, and HP 9000 systems running Windows, Linux, and HP-UX. The core HP SIM software delivers the essential capabilities required to manage all HP server platforms. HP SIM can also be extended to deliver unparalleled breadth of system management with plug-ins for HP storage, power, client, and printer products. Plug-ins for rapid deployment, performance management, and workload management enable systems administrators to pick the value added software required to deliver complete lifecycle management of their hardware assets.

The database that stores vital information about HP SIM, including users, systems, and toolboxes.

An agent that is installed on a server to enable you to see the HP software installed on that server. The HP VCA can be configured to point to HP Version Control Repository Manager, enabling easy version comparison and software update from the repository.

An HP agent that enables a customer to manage HP provided software stored in a user-defined repository.

Provides central management and control of Virtual Machines on Microsoft Virtual server, Vmware’s GSX and ESX. Integrated with HP SIM, Virtual Machine Management Pack provides unified management of HP ProLiant host servers and virtual machines.

The underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web.

While discovery finds systems, identification attempts to determine what the system type is. In addition, it determines what management protocol a system supports, using credentials from the Global Protocol Settings page, and attempts to determine the operating system and version loaded, along with other basic attributes about the system. Finally, it determines if the system is associated with another system. For example, a management processor in a server.

A particular HP software component that is installed on the server.

Specifies the format of datagrams (packets) and the addressing scheme on a network. Most networks combine IP with Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which establishes a virtual connection between a destination and a source.

Systems with an IP address that falls in the specified range.

Similar to Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC), this set of application program interfaces (APIs) provides a standard mechanism to allow Java applets access to a database.

A set of protocols that enable Java objects to communicate remotely with other Java objects.

A database that maintains a list of keys. The keystore can contain a subject's own private key. A keystore can also contain a list of public keys, as published in certificates.

Status information collected from the system that indicates one or more of the monitored subsystems are not operating properly which is impacting the system. Action should be taken immediately.

Any system managed by HP SIM, such as servers, desktops, storage systems, and Remote Insight Boards (RIBs).

A daemon or process running on a managed system. It receives and executes requests from the Central Management Server on the managed system.

A collection of resources called managed systems that have been placed under the control of HP SIM. Each Central Management Server is responsible for a management domain. The managed systems can belong to more than one management domain.

An integrated piece of software used by the HP suite of HP Web-enabled System Management Software to communicate over HTTP and HTTPS. It provides a uniform set of functionality and security to HP Web-enabled System Management Software. This version is available in the ProLiant Support Pack 7.10 or earlier.

The data specification for passing information using the SNMP protocol. An MIB is also a database of managed objects accessed by network management protocols.

An ASCII text file in the DMI architecture that describes the manageable features and attributes of a product. The DMI maintains this information in a MIF database and makes it available to operating systems and management applications. The DMTF has specified MIF formats for a variety of system types and peripheral systems.

Agents running on systems that provide management information for HTTP, DMI, or SNMP protocols.

A LAN dedicated to the communications necessary for managing systems. It is typically a moderate bandwidth (10/100 BaseT) and secured through limited access.

A set of protocols, such as WBEM, HTTP, SNMP, or DMI, used to establish communication with discovered systems.

A set of systems within the set of all discovered systems that HP SIM manages.

A core set of capabilities such as automatic discovery, data collection, a central repository for system and event information, event management, basic notification, and secure access. These functions are used by add-ins from HP, a Management Solutions Partner, and HP SIM users.

Procedures you set up to search systems or events.

Processes that enable you to bypass a full discovery for the following tasks:

A page that summarizes cluster status as defined by Microsoft Cluster Server and lists the status and values of MSCS-defined cluster attributes. The Cluster Monitor uses color to display status based on MSCS condition values (Normal, Degraded, Failed, and Other).

Status information collected from the system that indicates one or more of the monitored subsystems are not operating properly which is impacting the system. Action should be taken as soon as possible to prevent further failure.

A default toolbox that contains tools that display the state of managed systems but not tools that change the state of managed systems.

A run type that supports multi-system operations. Tools with this run type operate on the target systems using their own internal mechanisms instead of using the Distributed Task Facility. The MSA run type uses the Distributed Task Facility to launch the tool on a single system before the tool interacting with the other managed systems.

Any computer system connected to your network with a compatible browser used to connect to the HP SIM GUI.

The Onboard Administrator is the central point for controlling an entire c-Class rack. It offers configuration, power, and administrative control over the rack, and its associated blades (Compute Servers), blade management processors (iLOs), network switches (depending on the models of switches used) and storage components (such as SAN or SATA). The Onboard Administrator is a single management processor, with shared resources to an optional backup twin processor for failover.

Enables you to collect, filter, and send problem reports for supported systems (ProLiant and Integrity) running Insight Management Agents. In addition, OSEM automatically sends service event notifications to HP SIM when a problem is detected on the system.

A set of network connectivity tools providing encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using SSH. It was created as an open source alternative to the proprietary SSH software suite offered by SSH Communications Security.

A user who has limited capability to configure the Central Management Server. operator rights users have permission to create, modify, and delete all reports and their own tools.

This section indicates whether the software on the server that the HP Version Control Agent is installed on has any updates available within the repository in which it has been configured to monitor.

A software solution that detects, analyzes, and explains hardware bottlenecks on HP ProLiant servers. PMP tools consist of Online Analysis, Offline Analysis, Comma Separated Value (CSV) File Generator Report, System Summary Report, Status Analysis Report, Configuration, Licensing, and Manual Log Purge.

An HP ProLiant and Integrity Support Pack is a set of HP software components that have been bundled together by HP, and verified to work with a particular operating system. An HP ProLiant and Integrity Support Pack contains driver components, agent components, and application and utility components. All of these are verified to install together.

A set of HP software components that have been bundled together by HP and verified to work with a particular operating system. A HP ProLiant Support Pack contains driver components, agent components, and application and utility components. All of these are verified to install together.

The contractual permissions granted by HP to the customer in the form of a coded embodiment of a license that represents a specific instance of a license. A single license can be represented by a single key or by a collection of keys.

The HP Insight Remote Support Pack provides proactive remote monitoring, diagnostics, and troubleshooting to help improve the availability of HP-supported servers and storage devices in your data center. The Remote Support Pack reduces cost and complexity in support of systems and devices. The Remote Support Pack securely communicates incident information through your firewall and/or Web proxy to the HP Support Center for reactive support. Additionally, based on your support agreement, system information can be collected for proactive analysis and services.

A set of components cabled together to communicate between themselves. A rack is a container for an enclosure.

The Red Hat Package Manager is a powerful package manager that can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and uninstall individual software packages. A package consists of an archive of files and package information, including name, version, and description.

Sometimes referred to as Wake-On-LAN (WOL). The remote powering up of a system through its resident WOL network card, provided that the system has been enabled to be so awakened using the ROM or F10 Setup.

This is a capability on which HP SIM relies to turn on the systems for scheduled Software Updates or Replicate Agent Settings.

A task provided by HP SIM to remove disk thresholds for systems in an associated collection. This task only removes disk thresholds that were set by HP SIM or by browsing directly to the Web Agent. Any thresholds set by HP SIM for Windows 32, including disk thresholds, are not removed by this task.

A tool that can be used to copy web-based agent settings to a group of systems.

A directory containing HP ProLiant Support Pack or Integrity Support Packs and Smart Components.

A subset of the resources owned by an operating system instance. The use of those resources is controlled through technologies such as the Fair Share Scheduler, pSets, and Memory Resource Groups.

A resource partition also has a set of processes associated with it, and only those processes can use the resources within the resource partition. Policies established by tools such as Process Resource Manager (PRM), Workload Manager (WLM), or Global Workload Manager (gWLM) control how resources are allocated to the set of resource partitions within an operating system instance.

A baseline bundle of HP software components that the HP Version Control Agent can be configured to point to in the repository. This setting enables users to indicate that they want to keep all of their software up to a certain Support Pack level.

Conditions, policies, or criteria applied to system information to determine what it is.

An integrated piece of software used by the HP suite of HP Web-enabled System Management Software to communicate over HTTP and HTTPS. It provides a uniform set of functionality and security to HP Web-enabled System Management Software.

A set of variables (information) used to define a requested subset of information from the HP SIM database.

An extension to the HTTP protocol that supports sending data securely over the web.

A program to log in to another system over a network and execute commands on that system. It also enables you to move files from one system to another, and it provides authentication and secure communications over insecure channels.

A standard protocol layer that lies between HTTP and TCP and provides privacy and message integrity between a client and server. A common usage of SSL is to provide authentication of the server, so clients can be assured they are communicating with the server it claims to be. It is application protocol independent.

A feature of HP SIM that securely executes a task from a managed system. STE ensures that the user requesting the task has the appropriate rights to perform the task, and encrypts the request to protect data from snooping.

A feature that enables administrators to restrict system access and manage access on a per-user or per-group basis. This capability enables systems administrators to delegate tasks to junior staff without providing access to advanced or dangerous features. It also enables systems administrators to delegate management of systems to specific organizations or customers without providing access to systems owned by other organizations or customers.

A certificate that is its own Certificate Authority (CA), such that the subject and the CA are the same.

Typically a very dense server system containing microprocessors, memory, and network connections that can be easily inserted into a rack-mountable enclosure to share power supplies, fans, switches, and other components with other server blades. Server blades tend to be more cost-efficient, faster to deploy, and easier to adapt to growth and change than traditional rack-mounted or tower servers.

A feature designed to provide visual representation of ProLiant BL e-Class, p-Class and c-Class servers within their respective enclosures and racks.

A NetWare protocol used to identify the services and addresses of servers attached to the network.

A task provided by HP SIM to set a disk threshold for systems in an associated collection. This threshold is set on all disk volumes on the target systems.

A collection of compartments—all of the same type—that share system resources. The compartments can be nPartitions, virtual partitions, processor sets (pSets), or Fair Share Scheduler (FSS) groups. A server containing nPartitions can be an SRD—as long as nPartition requirements are met. A server or an nPartition divided into virtual partitions can be an SRD for its virtual partition compartments. Similarly, a server, an nPartition, or a virtual partition containing pSets can be an SRD for its pset compartments. Lastly, a Server, an nPartition, or a virtual partition containing FSS groups can be an SRD for its FSS group compartments.

A complex with nPartitions can hold multiple SRDs. For example, if the complex is divided into nPartitions, named Par1 and Par2, Par1's compartments could be virtual partitions, while Par2's compartments are pSets.

Each compartment holds a workload. gWLM manages the workload by adjusting the compartment's resource allocation.

A convenient way to send brief text messages directly to a wireless phone. There is a maximum message length of 140 characters.

One management protocol supported by HP SIM. Traditional management protocol used extensively by networking systems and most servers. Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets (MIB-II) is the standard information available consistently across all vendors.

A lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment.

Permission granted to an authenticated user browsing to HP SIM to browse to any of the managed systems from within HP SIM without re-authenticating to the managed system. HP SIM is the initial point of authentication, and browsing to another managed system must be from within HP SIM.

A run type that does not support multi-system operations. Tools with this run type are only aware of the system on which they are running.

An industry-standard WBEM provider that implements a well defined interface for storage management. The manufacturers of host bus adapters (HBAs), switches, tape libraries, and storage arrays can integrate SMI-S providers with their systems, or provide them as separate software packages.

Default SNMP community string used when communicating with systems supporting SNMP communications.

Asynchronous event generated by an SNMP agent that the system uses to communicate a fault.

The HP-UX administration tool set used to deliver and maintain HP-UX operating systems and layered software applications.

A listing of the HP software installed on the system where the HP Version Control Agent is installed.

A task to remotely update software and firmware.

The act of a website posing as another site to gather confidential or sensitive information, alter data transactions, or present false or misleading data.

The default place where the system writes error messages. The default is the terminal display.

The default place to which a program writes its output. The default is the terminal display.

A list created by Cluster Management Resources to collect entries found in the bottom left area of the Cluster Monitor page to bring your attention to cluster attributes that are in an abnormal state.

The list header summary of the total number of status messages in the list and, in parentheses, the number of status messages that have not been examined.

The classification of status messages (for example, Critical, Major, Minor, Normal, Warning, and Unknown).

A standard management interface developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). SMI-S provides a common interface and facilitates the management of storage devices from multiple vendors. SMI-S uses industry-standard common information model and Web-Based Enterprise Management technology.

SAN-attached Fibre Channel disk arrays, switches, tape libraries, or hosts (with Fibre Channel host bus adapters).

On TCP/IP networks, subnets are all systems whose IP addresses have the same prefix. For example, all systems with IP addresses that start with 10.10.10. would be part of the same subnet.

An agent (or online service tool) that gathers and delivers hardware and operating system configuration information. This information is gathered while the server is online.

A common key that both the server and receiver of a message share and use to encrypt and decrypt a message.

Systems on the network that communicate through TCP/IP. To manage a system, some type of management protocol (for example, SNMP, DMI, or WBEM) must be present on the system. Examples of systems include servers, workstations, desktops, portables, routers, switches, hubs, and gateways.

A group of systems based on a system collection; a static snapshot of the source collection at the time the system group was created. Used for authorizations.

This is aggregate status all of the status sources (which can be SNMP, WBEM, DMI, and HTTP) that are supported on a target system, with the most critical status being displayed. The following are the different system health statuses that can be displayed:

Identifying information about systems. This information is stored in the database. The following information is identified:

Information that is provided on the System Page under the System tab. The system information includes:

Agents that conform to the DMI V2 standard and have passed testing. The list of compliant DMI V2 agents can be found on http://www.dmtf.org.

Agents that conform to SNMP MIB-2 standards.

A summary information page for a specific system that has a management agent.

A report indicating the state of systems that is available at the time that HP SIM is first opened. A system search result contains the number of systems that are registered with the HP SIM databases. Systems are grouped by their status conditions. Each number in a column is a hyperlink to a more detailed list of systems, which displays the systems that correspond to the number in the overview.

properties can be set for a single system or for multiple systems at the same time and include options such as system name, system type, system sub-type, operating system version, asset number, contact information, and whether or not the system properties can be changed or updated by the discovery process.

Logical grouping of systems into a collection based on information in the HP SIM database. After a search is defined, you can display the results from the system view page or associate it with a management task.

The result of a system search.

The section of the GUI on the left of the screen that displays status information and system or event alarms.

One of 12 supplied types. You can add your own based on one of these types. For example, use Server type to create MyServer type. It is still a server and is reported on in the same way, but it has your designation.

A utility that enables you to modify the default behavior of the discovery and identification of objects classified as Unknown or as another category of systems are discovered and identified precisely as you require. HP SIM discovers and identifies the system and applies the new information when an Unknown system matches a rule set that you specify as the primary rule set. Furthermore, creating the new system type provides a System Link page for viewing the information returned from the system agent or from the communication protocol of SNMP or DMI.

An executed instance of an HP SIM tool, on one or more systems, with a specific set of arguments.

A master scheduling tool for the scheduling of polling, control, and notification tasks.

Template files are a concept that was used before HP SIM had multiple automatic discovery tasks. Template files should no longer be used. However, a template file enables you to create the same data range (IP ranges, and so on) that would be entered in a discover IP inclusion range. The automatic discovery task can have as input one or more template files. However, template files cannot be nested.

A preset limit that produces an event when the limit is reached or exceeded.

An open source implementation of Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies that is used by HP SIM as a web server.

An application, command, or script that can be executed by HP SIM on one or more systems to perform a task.

A defined set of tools that a user might need for a particular task, such as database administration or software management. Each HP SIM toolbox is associated with a set of tools and authorizations.

An unsolicited message generated by a management agent that indicates that an event has occurred. For example, a monitored item has exceeded a set threshold or changed status. Previously called alarm.

Event collection systems found by event type. SNMP traps categorized by HP SIM into logical groups according to their functions.

The IP address of a system that has been specified to receive trap notifications forwarded by the HP SIM systems.

The classification of a system, which identifies it as a standard system type. The system types are client, cluster, portable, printer, remote access device, repeater, router, server, switch, unknown, workstation, and other.

Events that have a Critical, Major, Minor, Normal, or Informational severity and have not been cleared or deleted from the database. Events can be cleared without being deleted from the database by using the Clear events menu option.

HP SIM cannot obtain management information about the system using SNMP or DMI. Although no management instrumentation information is available, the system can be pinged. It might have an invalid community string or security setting.

A network user with a valid login on the Central Management Server that has been added to HP SIM.

Accounts used to sign-in to HP SIM. These accounts associate a local Windows user account or a domain account with privilege levels and paging attributes inside HP SIM.

A group of users defined on the Central Management Server operating system that has been added to HP SIM. Members of the user group in the operating system can sign-in to HP SIM.

A user who cannot configure the Central Management Server. However, the user can view and run predefined reports on the Central Management Server and all managed systems.

A listing of all the software maintenance tasks completed by the HP Version Control Agent and reports resulting from those tasks.

Referred to as the HP Version Control Repository Manager installed on a Windows system for Windows and Linux ProLiant systems, and Software Distributor on HP-UX operating systems. Provides an overview of the software status for all managed ProLiant or Integrity systems and can update system software and firmware on those systems programmatically using predetermined criteria. Version control identifies systems that are running out-of-date system software, indicates if an upgrade is available, and provides reasons for upgrading. For HP-UX systems, Software Distributor can be launched from an HP SIM Central Management Server against one or more installed HP-UX systems.

An integrated server virtualization offering for HP-UX, Linux, and Windows servers that provides a flexible computing environment maximizing usage of server resources. VSE consists of a pool of dynamically sizeable virtual servers; each can grow and shrink based on service level objectives and business priorities. For more information, see http://hp.com/go/vse.

HP WBEM Services for HP-UX is an HP product that uses WBEM and DMTF standards to manage HP-UX system resources.

This industry initiative provides management of systems, networks, users, and applications across multiple vendor environments. WBEM simplifies system management, providing better access to software and hardware data that is readable by WBEM client applications.

A tool suite that is aimed at preventing or reducing the downtime of a system.

A run type for tools that are launched in a web browser using a web server. WLA tools can be designed to deal with multiple systems.

An API in the Windows operating system that enables you to manage and control systems in a network.

The section of the GUI where tools appear.

An application or tool that appears on an X server. X clients can also be called X applications.

A local application that accepts X client requests and acts on them.

A cross-platform windowing system that uses the client/server model to distribute services across a network. It enables applications or tools to run on a remote computer.

A collection of data represented in XML.