SCM - Service Control Manager - Anyone using this or Insight Manager?

[Alzhy]

I stumbled upon /opt/mx on my 11.11 environments (FOE and EOE) and it turns out it is HP Service COntrol Manager:

http://software.hp.com/products/SCMGR/

"HP Servicecontrol Manager is an easy-to-use multi-system management solution with web-enabled and command line interfaces. HP Servicecontrol Manager delivers multi-system access to all key system administration tools for fault monitoring, configuration, and workload management. "

But then it added HP System Insight Manager (SIM) is it's current direction.

Has anyone actually put either SCM or SIM to good use?

Our environment will wind down to be all HP-UX very soon.

[Rick Garland]

Got HPSIM running on HPUX 11.11 on a PA-RISC system.

SIM is kinda like the ITO monitoring lite.

Has some good features. A couple of uses is monitoring of storage and of ia64 systems. Fully integrates with StorageWorks.

Has some 1600+ monitoring metrics for the itaniums. We only use a very small subset, about 15 of these metrics are being watched.
(hardware items mainly)

[Geoff Wild]

Not running on HPUX - but I know the Wintel team is using HP SIM...

In the Dec 2005 Relesae of HP-UX - there is an updated version of HP System Management - here's a thread a bit on it:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=998943

As far as Server Control Manager - with multiple platforms (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Linux) - it just doesn't fir for us.

From a security/user management point of view, this one works across all platforms:

http://www.foxt.com/products/server_control.html


Rgds...Geoff