HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Systems Insight Manager 7.0 User Guide
- Table of Contents
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Setting up HP SIM
- 3 Setting up managed systems
- 4 Credentials
- 5 WMI Mapper Proxy
- 6 Discovery
- 7 Manage Communications
- 8 Automatic event handling
- 9 Users and Authorizations
- 10 Managed environment
- Part III HP SIM basic features
- 11 Basic and advanced searches
- 12 Monitoring systems
- 13 Event management
- 14 Reporting in HP SIM
- 15 HP SIM tools
- Part IV HP SIM advanced features
- 16 Collections in HP SIM
- 17 HP SIM custom tools
- 18 Federated Search
- 19 CMS reconfigure tools
- 20 Understanding HP SIM security
- 21 Privilege elevation
- 22 Contract and warranty
- 23 License Manager
- 24 Storage integration using SMI-S
- 25 Managing MSCS clusters
- 26 HP SIM Audit log
- 27 HP Version Control and HP SIM
- 28 Compiling and customizing MIBs
- A Important Notes
- System and object names must be unique
- Setting the Primary DNS Suffix for the CMS
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities menu options not available
- Virtual machine guest memory reservation size
- Insight Remote Support Advanced compatibility
- Database firewall settings
- Annotating the portal UI
- Security bulletins
- Validating RPM signatures
- Central Management Server
- Complex systems displaying inconsistency with the number of nPars within the complex
- Configure or Repair Agents
- Data collection reports
- B Troubleshooting
- Authentication
- Browser
- Central Management Server
- Complex
- Configure or Repair Agents
- Container View
- Credentials
- Data Collection
- Database
- Discovery
- iLO
- Linux servers
- Event
- Host name
- HP Insight Control power management
- Insight Control virtual machine management
- HP Smart Update Manager
- Systems Insight Manager
- Identification
- Installation
- License Manager
- Locale
- Managed Environment
- HP MIBs
- Onboard Administrator
- OpenSSH
- Performance
- Ports used by HP SIM.
- Privilege elevation
- Property pages
- Reporting
- Security
- Sign-in
- SNMP settings
- SSH communication
- System Page
- System status
- Target selection wizard
- Tasks
- Tools
- Upgrade
- UUID
- Virtual identifiers
- Virtual machines
- VMware
- WBEM
- WBEM indications
- WMI Mapper
- C Protocols used by HP SIM
- D Data Collection
- E Default system tasks
- Biweekly Data Collection
- System Identification
- Old Noisy Events
- Events Older Than 90 Days
- Status Polling for Non Servers
- Status Polling for Servers
- Status Polling for Systems No Longer Disabled
- Hardware Status Polling for Superdome 2 Onboard Administrator
- Data Collection
- Hardware Status Polling
- Version Status Polling
- Version Status Polling for Systems no Longer Disabled
- Check Event Configuration
- Status polling
- F Host file extensions
- G System Type Manager rules
- H Custom tool definition files
- I Out-of-the-box MIB support in HP SIM
- J Support and other resources
- Glossary
- Index
26 HP SIM Audit log
HP SIM logs all tasks performed by all HP SIM users on all systems. The information is stored in
the Audit Log file on the CMS. Several features of the HP SIM Audit Log are configurable. For
example, you can specify which tools log data and the maximum Audit Log file size. The HP SIM
Audit Log is configured through the log.properties file, and tool logging is enabled or disabled
through the XML tool definition files.
On Windows, the audit log can be found at the <SIM installdir>/logs/mx.log . On
Linux and HP-UX, the audit log can be found at /var/opt/mx/logs/mx.log. These are rolled
over to mx.log.old when the file reaches the maximum default size of 20 MB.
Configuring the HP SIM audit log
Configuring the HP SIM Audit log is performed from the CLI, and you must be signed-in as root or
administrator.
Configuring the tool definition files
The XML tool definition file provides an option to disable logging of SSA and MSA command tools.
The log attribute for the command element specifies whether the results of the command are output
to the HP SIM log file. Command output is logged by default.
Configuring the log.properties file
You might need to create the file and name it log.properties if one does not exist in the
directory. HP SIM uses default values when the file does not exist or when a variable is not defined
in the file.
For Windows, the file is located in <SIM installdir>/logs/mx.log.
For Linux and HP-UX, the file is located in /var/opt/mx/logs/mx.log. This is rolled over to
the mx.log.old file when it reaches the maximum configured size of 20MB.
The file is rolled over to the mx.log.old file when it reaches the maximum configured size of
20MB.
Viewing the audit log
HP SIM logs all tasks performed by all HP SIM users on all systems. The information is stored in
the Audit Log file on the CMS.
NOTE: You must be signed-in as root or administrator (or any user with administrative rights) to
read the audit log file directly.
Procedure 26-1 Viewing the HP SIM audit log
1. Select Tasks & Logs→View Systems Insight Manager Audit Log. The Audit Log page
appears.
2. Select the log entries you want to view by selecting one of the following options:
• most recent 40 entries. Select this to view a selectable number of the most recent log
entries. The default is set to view the 40 most recent log entries.
• from entry " " to entry " ". Select this option to view an indexed range of log entries.
3. Click View Now. The requested log entries appear.
Example audit log
Configuring the HP SIM audit log 157