HP Storage Essentials items are added to the Tools, Deploy, Diagnose, Optimize, Reports, Tasks & Logs, and Options menus. Refer to your HP Storage Essentials documentation for details about these menu items.

A shared collection called Storage Essentials Systems is added to the Systems & Events panel.

The following collections are included under Storage Essentials Systems: All SE Systems, SE Servers, SE Switches, SE Storage Arrays, SE Tape Libraries, and SE Cluster Nodes.

If a storage system is managed by HP Storage Essentials, storage-specific details do not appear in its identity tab, and an SE System Properties link appears in the HP Storage Essentials Pages section on the Tools & Links tab. Click the SE System Properties link to view the Storage Essentials device page for this storage system.

For storage hosts, HP Storage Essentials adds the System Application Discovery Settings link to the Tools & Links Page. Use this link to access the preferences for HP Storage Essentials system application discovery.

No data is displayed in HP Systems Insight Manager storage system reports. This is because HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) data collection from SMI-S devices is disabled to avoid duplicate data collection from both HP SIM and HP Storage Essentials. For information on storage system reporting with HP Storage Essentials, see your HP Storage Essentials documentation.

The storage tables in HP SIM's Data Collection reports are not populated with data because HP SIM's SMI-S data collection is disabled.

Storage systems that are managed by HP Storage Essentials show a subtype of Storage Essentials Managed, and do not show the SMI subtype.

HP SIM determines device health status by polling the SMI-S providers of storage systems. If HP Storage Essentials discovered a storage array, storage switch, or tape library by a method other than SMI-S, HP SIM lists the device's status as Unknown.

System properties that are edited in HP SIM are not transferred to HP Storage Essentials.

The Suspend or Resume Monitoring command has no effect on HP Storage Essentials systems.

HP Storage Essentials events are handled as follows:

The Automatic tab on the Discovery page shows the status of the HP Storage Essentials discovery process and provides a link to the HP Storage Essentials discovery log.

The General Settings section in the Automatic tab on the Discovery page includes a link to the HP Storage Essentials global application settings configuration page.

When HP Storage Essentials is installed, a Toolbox for Storage Essentials tools is added to the Toolboxes tab of the Users and Authorizations page.