HP SIM leverages a distributed architecture that can be broken into three types of systems: Central Management Server (CMS), managed systems, and network clients.
The CMS and the managed systems together are called the HP SIM management domain.
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Each management domain has a single CMS. The CMS is the system in the management domain that executes the HP SIM software and initiates all central operations within the domain. In addition to the HP SIM software, the CMS maintains a database for storage of persistent objects, and it can reside on a separate system. Typically, applications for the multiple-system aware (MSA) tools also reside on the CMS. These applications are not required to reside on the CMS. They can reside anywhere on the network.
Because the CMS is a system within the management environment, it manages itself as part of the domain. You can add the CMS as a managed system within another management domain if you want to manage it using a separate CMS.
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Systems that make up a management domain are called managed systems. A system can be any device on the network that can communicate with HP SIM, which includes servers, desktops, laptops, printers, workstations, hubs, storage systems, SANs, and routers. In most cases, these devices have an IP address or IPX address associated with them. A managed system can be managed by more than one CMS if desired.
Systems to be managed must have one or more management agents installed. There are a wide variety of agents, such as the ProLiant management agents based on SNMP, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) found on Windows systems, or Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) providers, such as the System Fault Management providers for HP-UX. Those agents provide management information and alerts (indications) to the CMS. The SSH agent (service) then enables the HP SIM CMS to log in to the managed system to execute commands through scripts.
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System collections provide a way to group systems in the HP SIM database. A collection can be used to filter systems that share common attributes, such as operating system type or hardware type. System collections can also be arbitrary collections of systems. Systems can belong to one or more system collections. Many default shared system collections are provided, and you can create your own shared and private collections. Working with system collections increases your efficiency because you can perform a task on each system in a system collection with a single step.
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