Once your IT infrastructure starts functioning in your organization, you want to make sure it stays up, running, and operating to its peak potential. You need to monitor and analyze its performance to efficiently accomplish this critical goal.
AppManager for Hewlett-Packard Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), formerly known as Compaq Insight Manager, maximizes server availability so your enterprise performs at top levels, ensuring business functions remain online. Graphs and reports of key server trends provide up-to-date data so you can proactively solve incidents and decrease application downtime. AppManager for HP SIM also enables you to monitor server attributes and easily manage your hardware from a single console.
As utilization increases, it becomes crucial for IT organizations to ensure the availability and performance of HP computers. AppManager for HP SIM provides an Activity Monitor for you to view information about jobs, services, and processes. It also provides comprehensive management of your HP infrastructure by monitoring events and collecting data for analysis.
AppManager-specific Knowledge Scripts allow you to monitor the following:
Status of the Array logical drives in an array set
Status of the Array physical drives in an array set
Status and health of Automatic Server Recovery (ASR)
Status of individual fans, Fibre Channel Array (FCA) controllers, and fault tolerant power supplies
Network interface transmission errors and status of the network interface
Status and the recharge level of the Remote Insight Board battery
Status of the cable connections and overall condition of Remote Insight Board
Number of hard resets, soft resets, and command timeouts for the SCSI controller
Condition of Teamed NIC
Status of the SIM temperature sensors, the computer’s thermal environment, and the voltage level for a server.
Status of the UPS battery life and the UPS AC power line
Using a set of AppManager-specific Report Knowledge Script, you can generate detailed reports about the following functions:
Status of the Automatic Server Recovery
CPU and memory usage by SIM processes
Number of hard resets, soft resets, and command timeouts for the SCSI controller
Condition of correctable memory, and the number of new correctable memory errors
Windows event log entries from the SIM Insight Agent or the System Management Assistant (SMA)
Network interface input and output errors
In addition to monitoring HP computers, AppManager for HP SIM can intervene to restart stopped services.