Integration [744] - BSM Connector for HPE Systems Insight Manager

Event Collection
The  automatic event handling mechanism is used to collect events from the  server. The SIM server runs a user-defined script for each new or cleared event:

Windows: hpbsmcollector.bat 

Linux: hpbsmcollector.sh 

The hpbsmcollector.bat|sh script is a custom tool script that runs on the  system. It is executed each time a new or cleared event is received by an  event collection. Events collection functionality is built-in to . An event collection is a set of events with a common event state, which is either new or cleared. The BSM Connector for HP Systems Insight Manager integration uses two event collections: All Events and Cleared Events. The Cleared Events collection is created automatically using the siminstall.bat|sh script

Topology Collection
The Topology collector script implements the collecting and processing of topology data collected from . The Topology collector collects data from the  web service interface using the HTTP/SOAP protocol.
Data collection is done by executing two SOAP calls. The first call is a basic logon call, which returns a logon token needed for the next SOAP call, named getNodeList.

Policies and Topology Rules Integration Overview
Policies define how values from the XML output files (sim_events.xml  and sim_topology.xml), generated by the  integration, are mapped to values in BSM/OMi. These output files are processed by dedicated policies:

• XML File for Event Integration (sim_events.xml)
  Event data is mapped to the BSM conform form using an XML  policy HP BSM Connector for HP SIM - Event Integration. The policy also sets the drilldown URL for each event.
• Custom for Topology Integration (sim_topology.xml)
  The  policy Micro Focus BSM Connector for HP SIM - Topology Integration is used for mapping acquired values to configuration items (CIs) in the RTSM, a Jython script uses five XML mapping rules files.

Topology objects are mapped to the RTSM using the local topology synchronization component provided by the BSM Connector.

Back Synchronization
If an  event is closed in OMi, the  server must be informed and should also clear this event. This is known as BackSync and uses two Perl scripts (OMBackSync.pl and OMBackSync_SIM.pl) to send an HTTP request to the connector, which clears the event on the  server using the  web service. If this succeeds, the event state is changed to cleared in .