How do you setup "Server Role"

[David Neal]

I understand that you need agents 5.40 or higher and that as near as I can tell it is done at the server being monitored. Can't find any documentation from CIM7sp2, HPSIM, or on the agents.

Thanks in advance.

[David Claypool]

'Server Role' is basically a free-form field that was added to the agents that is collected into the IM7/hpSIM database and is a query item.

For example, if you put the word 'Exchange' in the server role of all of your Exchange servers, you could have a query that identifies all of those servers.

[David Neal]

I found the answer to my own question in a help file on one of my CIM 7sp2 boxes on how to set it. It is done through either the System Management Agents home page or through creating an SNMP Group Configuration Control Task.