HP SIM 4.2 information

[David Claypool]

December 1: HP SIM 4.2 officially announced and information posted at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim

Additional information is contained in a few slides that are attached to this message as a PDF.

Downloads from the web are expected to be available on or after December 9.

[Rob Buxton · Accepted solution]

David,
Any idea when items such as the Installation & Upgrade procedures will be available.
That would be quite useful for some installation planning. Also a New Features guide, the HPSIM overview page certainly shows the major elements but some of the smaller improvements would be useful to know.

[Nicolai Strehler]

Thank you, that is nice to know.
It would be really great, if the cluster identification and the cluster management would work finally in the new release.

Regards,

Nicolai

[David Claypool]

Rob:

That detail is covered in the PDF attached to the top message. 4.2 is a very minor update--you won't see much of a difference. The majority of the changes are internal, mostly going to support the new VMM and VPM functionality.

Nicholai:

The dev team is not tracking against any bugs in cluster management. If you have specific issues, get them into customer services so they can be documented and become part of the official corrective action list.

[Steve Kadish]

Hi David,

I just did some reading between the lines on the SIM site, and what I came away with is that the Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack will be offered under the same model as the Performance Management Pack. In other words, you can install it with SIM, and you get a few free licenses, and then you purchase licenses for the rest of your servers.

Could you please confirm whether or not that is correct, so I know whether I should be looking into pricing?

Thanks much,
- Steve Kadish

[David Claypool]

You've read correctly. Pricing when it is published will be a list of USD 249, but check with your sales contacts as there will be a 2-for-1 introduction special through the end of February, 2005 (for everyone's information, that is a promotion that will be available worldwide!)

[NJK-Work]

Thanks for the info David. From the looks of the slides there seems to be a few things I have been looking for:

1) Edit properties of a monitored object. For example, I have a few servers that will just not inventory properly (like it will not pull the serial number). Now I can edit it manually and have it save (right now I have to run a daily SQL script to continually add the SN after a discover "re-blanks" it.

2)OS Accounts. YEAH!!! I hate having to manaage all those passwords that are unique per box.

3) Pause Polling! FINALLY! No explanation needed!

Thanks again for the slides and I look forward to the new version. Any ETA?

Nelly

[David Claypool]

Right now the latest date to post to the web would be next Monday but we are expecting much sooner. I always hate to commit to an exact date because things change that are out of our control. However, the release went gold a couple of weeks ago and the only thing happening right now is going through the publishing process. I'll message this forum again when I actually see it post.