topic Re: Nice to Have's for Next Release of SIM in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Nice to Have's for Next Release of SIM

Brian Moser — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:17:18 GMT

Would like to see the ability to have SIM track the number of times a server fails to respond to the "HARDWARE STATUS POLLING FOR SERVERS" scheduled task and be able to take an action (such as generate a page if a server fails X number of consecutive polling cycles). I am currently accomlishing this with some really long ping and retry values.

Would also be nice if I could configure individual servers to ping using port 80 rather then make a global change.

Again, this are just nice to haves. Overall, I applaud the HP SIM team as SIM 4.0 and SIM 4.1 are leaps and bounds better then CIM 7 was (in my humble opinion).

Re: Nice to Have's for Next Release of SIM

David Claypool — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:46:11 GMT

Thanks for your compliments. Your comments have been forwarded to the product manager.

Some notes:

On polling, yes, we have a request like this on the wish list. It always is a juggling act deciding which features are possible with available resources. One hint, though, I think Rob Buxton might be willing to share his Perl script approach to this. I think he calls a script instead of directly notifying and increments a counter when it reaches so many times.

On port 80, the thing that drove this was ICMP blocking because of virus propagation in so many networks. The assumption generally, then, would be that this should be a global setting. Sharing the reason why you need granular control will help the developers.

Thanks again. It's always nice to have your efforts appreciated.

Re: Nice to Have's for Next Release of SIM

Brian Moser — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:23:52 GMT

Another nice to have would be the ability use Active Directory groups for security in addition to individual users (would be easer to add a group called "helpdesk" as apposed to setting up each individual user).

Re: Nice to Have's for Next Release of SIM

Brian Moser — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:27:52 GMT

David,
Globally pinging on port 80 is generating some false unavailable alerts for me. However, it sounds like Rob Buxton's perl script may be a good way to get around this as well as the other problems I have with the "Hardware Status Polling for Servers" task. Do you know off hand if Rob's script is discussed in this formum somewhere?

Thanks, Brian

Re: Nice to Have's for Next Release of SIM

Rob Buxton — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:41:21 GMT

Sorry folks I've never crafted such a script but may have suggested it.

I certainly use perl scripts to craft e-mails to our ARS System. That script also reads a file of Servers to ignore.
I find it easier to quickly edit a text file rather than change the Event Notification.

Which brings me round to my request, I still would like to see the ability to use System Lists in Event Notification settings.