Tools for Managing Multiple Servers

While the HP Systems Insight Manager can be used to manage a single HP-UX server, it is probably better to use the “HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH)” for that purpose.

HP Systems Insight Manager allows you to manage multiple servers called managed systems from a Central Management Server (CMS). Collectively, the CMS and the managed systems are referred to as a management domain. The CMS is also a managed system within its own management domain and can simultaneously be a managed system of management domains controlled from other CMSs.

The CMS is the server where the HP Systems Insight Manager software resides, and you can access this software from any network client (any computer capable of accessing the CMS via a web browser (for a graphical user interface), or via ssh (for a secure textual user interface). The network clients can be, but do not have to be members of the managed domain.

	NOTE: HP Systems Insight Manager is capable of managing large groups of systems but for Enterprise-wide operations HP recommends the more powerful OpenView Suite of tools.

The HP Systems Insight Manager is based on the Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standard, a set of technologies designed to consolidate the management of multiple servers of possibly varying OS types, as well as several other open standards.

As your need grow, the HP Systems Insight Manager can grow with you. You can expand its capabilities with extensions to SIM, you can configure additional systems into numerous management domains, and when you are ready for enterprise-level management you can use the HP Systems Insight Manager to feed information into the OpenView Suite of products. See “Tools for Managing an Entire Enterprise”.