HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

NOTE: HP does not recommend scheduling a polling task based on periodic event collection. The task
would run on the set of systems for each event in the associated collection.
NOTE: If you remove a hardware status polling task, systems continue to be discovered, but the status on
them is not updated. If you remove the Daily System Identification task, you would no longer detect changes
in management on systems.
The following default tasks are available on the View All Scheduled Tasks page:
• Biweekly Data Collection
• Daily System Identification
• Delete Old Noisy Events
• Delete Events Older Than 90 Days
• Hardware Status Polling for Non Servers
• Hardware Status Polling for Servers
• Hardware Status Polling for Systems No Longer Disabled
• Initial Data Collection
• Initial Hardware Status Polling
• Software Version Status Polling
• Software Version Status Polling for Systems no Longer Disabled
• Daily Check Event Configuration
Biweekly Data Collection
Use this task to collect data. This task runs on all systems in the Data Collection List collection. The default
schedule sets the task to run every other Saturday at noon.
Daily System Identification
Use this task to gather information about systems such as networking systems. By default, this task runs once
a day. The information is identified and stored in the database.
• Single Sign On and STE support on a managed system
• Type of management protocol on the system (HTTP, SNMP, DMI, and WBEM)
• Type and subtype of system (server, storage, switch, router, and so on)
• Product name of the system
• Operating system name and version
• Web Agents running on the system
• Web-based software running on the system (for example, printer management software)
• System associations with management processors (for example, a system and its Remove Insight board)
• Storage proxies and related storage systems
• Wake-on-LAN information
Delete Old Noisy Events
Delete Events Older Than 90 Days
This task deletes events older than 90 days and can help maintain HP SIM by limiting the total number of
events. By default, this task is disabled. To enable the task:
On the All Scheduled Taskspage, click Enable.
For more information about scheduling tasks, see “Creating a task”.
280 Managing with tasks