the Storage Essentials installation files—(the HP SIM Connector) provides the integration between Storage Essentials and HP SIM.

The Storage Essentials installation wizard automatically installs the HP SIM Connector on the Storage Essentials server (along with the other software components described later). When Storage Essentials is installed in the separate server configuration, the Storage Essentials installation wizard additionally installs the HP SIM Connector on the separate HP SIM server via a network connection to provide communication between HP SIM and Storage Essentials on separate servers.

As a best practice, HP recommends installing HP Storage Essentials as a plug-in for HP Systems Insight Manager (the integrated version of Storage Essentials). The integrated version of HP SIM and Storage Essentials provides the following feature sets:

•Hardware and software health status polling, monitoring, and event management for:

•Storage

•Servers

•Switches

•Infrastructure

•And other elements on your network such as enclosures, racks, clients and printers

•HP SIM provides standards-based support for HP and third-party devices and management frameworks.

•When Storage Essentials is integrated with HP SIM, you access the Storage Essentials features and menu options via Storage Essentials menu items on the HP SIM menus and within various HP SIM screens.

The integrated version of HP Storage Essentials and HP Systems Insight Manager includes the following software components:

•HP Systems Insight Manager 5.1 SP1

(HP SIM 5.2 is also supported. Contact your Sales Engineer to determine which version of HP SIM is best for your environment. This installation guide provides instructions for installing HP SIM 5.1, the version included with your Storage Essentials 6.0 product kit.)

•Storage Essentials 6.0

•HP SIM Connector 6.0

(included in the Storage Essentials installation files and automatically installed by the Storage Essentials installation wizard)

•Oracle 10g Standard Edition for Storage Essentials 6.0 (automatically installed by the Storage Essentials installation wizard)

•CIM Extension files (6.0)—Common Information Module files that you install on the hosts and other network elements you want to manage and for which you want to automate discovery.

•CIM Extension Management tool for installing some of the supported CIM extensions in batch mode, remotely, onto multiple hosts.

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