Onboard administrator, Openssh, Performance – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual
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Onboard Administrator
When an Onboard Administrator system is deleted, health status of the bare metal server systems
remain stale. ProLiant OA must be rediscovered to obtain updated health status of the bare metal
server systems.
OpenSSH
OpenSSH installation fails on a Windows XP SP3 system.
Solution: Verify that the Network access: Sharing and security model for local accounts under Local
Policies
→Security Options is set to Classic - local users are authenticate as themselves.
Performance
When running HP SIM in an environment that contains a large number of ProLiant systems running
the WMI-based Insight Agents, the completed job output in Tasks & Logs
→View Task Results might
exceed several thousand files.
Solution: This can result in HP SIM consuming large amounts of memory, task page interface
slowdown, or out of memory errors.
If this behavior is noted, the following workaround can be implemented to alleviate the consumption
of memory and disk space. The workaround adjusts the retention values for completed tasks and
can be altered as desired to reduce resource consumption.
NOTE:
This fix only applies to HP SIM instances which are managing a large number of servers
(maximum 5000) using WMI.
Add the following script to the MX.PROPERTIES file located in the Microsoft Windows directory
\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\config
or in the Linux and HP-UX
directory /etc/opt/mx/config:
MX_JOB_MAX_COMPLETED_JOBS_PER_TASK=3
Recommended value is 3 for greater than 1500 systems
MX_JOB_MAX_COMPLETED_JOB_AGE=7
Recommended value is 7 for greater than 1500 systems
MX_JOB_KEEP_RUN_NOW_HOURS=8
Recommended value is 8 for greater than 1500 systems
After the MX.PROPERTIES file has been modified, restart the HP SIM service to initiate the changes.
Ping
HP recommends you do not disable ping in hardware status polling tasks. If the ping protocol from
hardware status polling task is disabled, then other polling protocol statuses like SNMP, WBEM,
OOB, WSMAN, and so on will be affected. There will be no polling done for these protocols and
the status shown in the UI for these protocols will be that of the previously collected data before
disabling ping protocol.
Ports used by HP SIM.
By default, HP SIM uses port 5989 to communicate with the WBEM server of the systems it monitors.
To use a different port for this purpose, complete the following:
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