View Information about a Offline Server

[Prashant_17]

We are using the SQl Database to maintain the information in CIM 7 . If server is Offline then is it possible to see offline information, Which is stored in in the database. If it doesn't store information then how to setp up so information can be stored in CIM 7 SQL Database to view offline.

[David Claypool]

Information of a relatively static nature (hardware config, etc) is maintained in the database through a data collection task, by default updated bi-weekly, the "Bi-Weekly Data Collection" task. You can change the frequency of this task [and rename it :) to more accurately reflect what it does] although don't set it more often than you expect data to change [to be conservative on bandwidth].

When looking at the properties page in IM7 [seen when you click the name of the server instead of the status icon] there is a link for "Data Collection Report" that will show you everything in the database for that server. Use the reports subsystem to see selected data on multiple servers.

[Rob Buxton]

Yes, a great deal of info is stored in the database.
You can use the Reports Function to access information about a Server that is offline.

Or, you can interrogate the database and create your own reports.
On HP's site under the old CIM 7 Documentation there wasa white paper on creating your own reports that provides a very good layout of the database and what tables are used. This is not 100% fully accurate as regards the new HPSIM database but it's still pretty close and a lot of reports I've written for CIM 7 work with only monor tweaks for HPSIM