- available software
A listing of the software components available in the repository that the VCA has been configured to point to. When browsing directly into a VCA, these additional components can be selected for installation.
- component
A component is a single, self-describing, installable (interactive or silent) binary file containing a single piece of software, such as firmware image, driver, agent, or utility, that is supported by the management and update tools.
- Custom Software Baseline
A set of HP software components that have been bundled together as a baseline by the customer. Modifying the contents of an existing Support Pack provides customers with the flexibility to define their own baselines for their environment.
- graphical user interface
(GUI)
A program interface that takes advantage of the computer's graphics capabilities to make the program easier to use. HP SIM's GUI is Web-enabled and displays in a web browser.
- HP Insight Management Agent
A program that regularly gathers information or performs some other service without the user's immediate presence.
- HP ProLiant and Integrity Support Pack
An HP ProLiant and Integrity Support Pack, or Custom Software Baseline is a set of HP software components that have been bundled together by HP, and verified to work with a particular operating system. A ProLiant and Integrity Support Pack contains driver components, agent components, and application and utility components. All of these are verified to install together.
- HP Systems Insight Manager
The system management software that is capable of managing a wide variety of systems, including HP systems, clusters, desktops, workstations, and portables.
HP SIM combines the strengths of HP Insight Manager 7, HP Toptools, and HP Servicecontrol Manager to deliver a single tool for managing HP ProLiant, Integrity, and HP 9000 systems running Windows, Linux, and HP-UX. The core HP SIM software delivers the essential capabilities required to manage all HP server platforms. HP SIM can also be extended to deliver unparalleled breadth of system management with plug-ins for HP storage, power, client, and printer products. Plug-ins for rapid deployment, performance management, and workload management enable systems administrators to pick the value added software required to deliver complete lifecycle management of their hardware assets.
- HP Version Control Agent
An Insight Management Agent that is installed on a server to enable the customer to see the HP software that is installed on that server. The VCA can be configured to point to a repository being managed by the VCRM, enabling easy version comparison and software deployment from the repository to the server that the VCA is installed upon.
- HP Version Control Repository Manager
An Insight Management Agent that enables a customer to manage software from HP that is stored in a directory/repository known as the Version Control Repository.
- HP Web-enabled System Management Software
The software that manages HP Web-enabled products.
- installed version
A particular HP software component that is installed on the server on which the VCA is installed.
- latest version
The latest version of a particular HP software component that is contained in the repository.
- overall software status
This section indicates whether the software on the server on which the VCA is installed has any updates available within the repository in which it has been configured to monitor.
- Red Hat Package Manager
(RPM)
The Red Hat Package Manager is a powerful package manager that can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and uninstall individual software packages. A package consists of an archive of files and package information, including name, version, and description.
- Reference Support Pack
A baseline bundle of HP software components that the VCA can be configured to point to in the repository. This setting enables users to indicate that they want to keep all of their software up to a certain Support Pack level.
- Replicate Agent Settings
A tool that can be used to copy Web-based agent settings to a group of systems.
- repository
A directory containing ProLiant and Integrity Support Packs and Smart Components.
- Secure Task Execution
(STE)
The secure execution of a task from a managed system. This feature of HP SIM ensures that the user requesting the task has the appropriate rights to perform the task, and encrypts the request to protect data from snooping.
- Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP)
One of the management protocols supported by HP SIM. Traditional management protocol used extensively by networking systems and most servers. MIB-2 is the standard information available consistently across all vendors.
- single login
Permission granted to an authenticated user browsing to HP SIM to browse to any of the managed systems from within HP SIM without re-authenticating to the managed system. HP SIM is the initial point of authentication and browsing to another managed system must be from within HP SIM.
- software inventory
A listing of the HP software installed on the system where the VCA is installed.
- support pack version
A field that displays the version of a particular HP software component that is contained in the Reference Support Pack that the VCA has been configured to use as a baseline. There might be a later version than this available in the repository, but this is the latest version of this particular component in the Reference Support Pack.
- System Management Homepage
An integrated piece of software used by the HP suite of HP Web-enabled System Management Software to communicate over HTTP and HTTPS. It provides a uniform set of functionality and security to HP Web-enabled System Management Software.
- VCA log
A listing of all the software maintenance tasks completed by the VCA and reports resulting from those tasks.
- version control
Referred to as the VCRM installed on a Windows system for Windows and Linux ProLiant systems, and Software Distributor on HP-UX operating systems. Provides an overview of the software status for all managed ProLiant or Integrity systems and can update system software and firmware on those systems programmatically using predetermined criteria. Version control identifies systems that are running out-of-date system software, indicates if an upgrade is available, and provides reasons for upgrading. For HP-UX systems, Software Distributor can be launched from an HP SIM CMS against one or more installed HP-UX systems.