The GUI is updated with the look and feel of other HP products.

HP SIM no longer requires Java (TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) to be installed on the client systems.

Discover storage systems through their installed SMI-S providers. See http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim/providers for information about the supported devices and SMI-S providers.

Cluster Monitor monitors Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) clusters only.

Reports are now available in XML format.

A new report engine is available, along with new default reports.

You can view a consolidated list of all server and storage events from a single event viewer and configure automated actions.

You can view storage array capacity details, including unallocated space, RAID overhead, usable bytes assigned to ports, and usable bytes not assigned to ports.

Flexible role-based security enables you to decide which administrators have access to server and storage details.

You can launch server and storage element managers from a single system viewer.

Lists and folders are now called collections.

You can now assign privileges to operating system user groups to give these users access to HP SIM without creating each individual user.

Access to discovery options, which include a Discovery page with tabs for Automatic, Manual, and Hosts Files configuration, has improved.

New CLI commands, including mxreport, mxcert, mxglobalprotocolsettings, mxglobalsettings, mxcollection, mxgetdbinfo, and mxgethostname, are now available.

You can set system properties for multiple systems at the same time.

You can suspend or resume monitoring of multiple systems at the same time.

A new tree view is available for system and cluster collections.

You can create, edit, and delete discovery tasks.

You can create new command line tools, including copying a file, removing a tool, and creating command line, web launch, and X Window tools on HP-UX and Linux systems.

HP SIM supports the use of an Oracle database (locally or remotely) for Windows, HP-UX, and Linux.

Support for managed system configuration has been added to include Linux, HP-UX, and Windows operating systems.

The First Time Wizard provides you with step-by-step, online guidance for performing the initial configuration of HP SIM and helps you configure HP SIM settings on the (CMS).

The HP Services analysis tools, Web-Based Enterprise Services (WEBES) and Open Service Event Manager (OSEM), generate service notifications to HP SIM through a specific SNMP trap type if analysis has determined there are serviceable events. If ISEE is installed, the service notification provided by WEBES and OSEM also provide status about the remote support incident.