topic Re: HP SIM > 1000 servers in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

HP SIM > 1000 servers

fishman_1 — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:20:41 GMT

Is anyone sanely managing this many systems with this product? I'm currently taking SIM training from HP and it proving to be as clunky and finicky as ever. How can you possibly manage all of the security layers, configuration, repository care and feeding without dedicating 1 or more people just to the task?
I know it is a huge task by anything, but this product still needs a lot of work (Better AD integration for security simplication etc) to get there.

fishman

Re: HP SIM > 1000 servers

NEETI TOLIA — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:32:39 GMT

SIM can manage upto 5000 nodes. HP IT itself manages more than 1000 nodes using SIM. There is HP video regarding this somewhere on HP site.

Re: HP SIM > 1000 servers

fishmn — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:01:06 GMT

I'd love to meet the poor sole who would dare use this to manage 5000 nodes.. he'd be committed to an insane asylum after a few months!

Re: HP SIM > 1000 servers

Bill Slobodnik — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:25:04 GMT

I'm running with about 2300 servers without problems (so far), but only for monitoring and reporting. We do not use HPSIM for repository, or any kind of HP software pushes.

Re: HP SIM > 1000 servers

Neal Bowman — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:58:47 GMT

We use it to manage 2500+ servers. We are a little short on installed RAM, so queries and initial startup is a little slow, but it is acceptable.

Re: HP SIM > 1000 servers

fishmn — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:41:28 GMT

Those are impressive numbers of servers! I assume you've installed openssh on all your windows boxes? You have them all setup under version control, SNMP alerting?

How does SIM 5.X handle (version control) your older hardware like G1/G2 360/380's?

Do you run your SIM database (SQL?) locally or remotely?

Thanks for replying!

Re: HP SIM > 1000 servers

Neal Bowman — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:51:05 GMT

For now,we have not installed OpenSSH. We just recently upgraded from CIM7 to CIM5, and are now beginning to see some of the capabilities that are possible. We are under powered as far as memory is concerned, and wind up rebooting our CMS server weekly.