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Setting the server role
System Administrators can use the Insight Management Agents architecture to define server Roles for
any servers being managed using HP SIM. The Server Role is a user-defined string of up to 256
characters. It is typically used to identify a server's function in the network or even its physical
location. Administrators can set the Server Role in several ways:
using Configure and Repair Agents in HP SIM
from the SMH of the managed server
from the Management Agents configuration utility
Administrators can use the server role field as one of the search criteria in the HP SIM Advanced
Search function. This allows them to find groups of servers based on their Server Role and to create
SIM Collections from these groups. Figure 8 shows an Advanced Search screen using Server Role as
a search criterion.
Figure 8. Advanced Search in HP SIM using Server Role as a criterion
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