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| available software | | A listing of the software components available
in the repository that the HP VCA has been configured to point
to. When browsing directly into a HP VCA, these additional components
can be selected for installation.
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C |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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G |
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| graphical user
interface | | 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.
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H |
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| HP Insight Management Advisor | | A program that regularly gathers information
or performs some other service without the user's immediate presence.
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| HP Service Pack
for ProLiant | | An HP Service Pack for ProLiant 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 HP Service Pack for ProLiant contains driver components, agent components,
and application and utility components. All of these are verified
to install together.
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| HP 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.
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| 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 Insight Management 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.
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| HP VCA Log | | A listing of all the software maintenance tasks
completed by the HP VCA and reports resulting from those tasks.
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| 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 HP VCA can be configured to point
to a repository being managed by the HP VCRM, enabling easy
version comparison and software deployment from the repository to
the server that the HP VCA is installed upon.
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| 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.
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| HP Web-enabled System Management Software | | The software that manages HP Web-enabled products.
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I |
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| installed version | | A particular HP software component that is installed
on the server on which the HP VCA is installed.
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L |
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| latest version | | The latest version of a particular HP software
component that is contained in the repository.
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O |
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| overall software
status | | This section indicates whether the software on
the server on which the HP VCA is installed has any updates
available within the repository in which it has been configured to
monitor.
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R |
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| Red Hat Package
Manager | | 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.
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| Reference Support
Pack | | A baseline bundle of HP software components that
the HP 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.
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| Replicate Agent
Settings | | A tool that can be used to copy Web-based agent
settings to a group of systems.
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| repository | | A directory containing HP Service Pack for ProLiant
and Smart Components.
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S |
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| Secure Task Execution | | 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.
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| Simple Network
Management Protocol | | 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.
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| 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.
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| software inventory | | A listing of the HP software installed on the
system where the HP VCA is installed.
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| 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 HP 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.
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V |
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| version control | | Referred to as the HP 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.
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