What is the best way to monitor HP hardware, We are planning for HP SIM installation . Would there be a way to integrate it with SCOM.

It depends on what OS you do have installed on this hardware. Check the HP Insight Control fro System Center: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/integration-msc.htmlhttp://OpsMgr.ru/

HP has management packs for monitoring proliant server type machines. When they are running a Windows OS and when you have the HP agents installed on that box. Its quite nice.Bob Cornelissen - BICTT (My BICTT Blog)

We used to have a HP SIM server, but we removed it as the hp mp for scom gives enough info about problems (combined with the local webpage). The only thing you might be missing out on is inventory data about your hardware. I guess it's bc we only monitor windows servers though and you need to tune some alerts (like a disk failure is shown as a warning and a battery failure of a raid controller as a critical while write cache is disabled because of the battery failure). Rob Korving http://jama00.wordpress.com/

The HP mp shows you how much memory (for example) is in the box, but it doesnt show you each DIMM. However when there is an error on one of the dimms, this gets seen by the HP agent and the info gets passed onto scom. From there you can launch the task to open the HP management homepage on the box and dive deeper. Works well for me at least.Bob Cornelissen - BICTT (My BICTT Blog)

I also would like to share the following documents: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/unified/infolibraryicm.html You can also contact HP to check which MP is suitable for your hardware: Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

I'll second, or third the vote for the HP ProLiant and Blade MPs. They have effectively replaced SIM in our environment as well. The HP MP is pretty well done for the most part, one of the best 3rd party MPs I've used.Layne, 2011 Microsoft Community Contributor Recipient