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

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3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................29
Configure or Repair Agents......................................................................................................29
Setting up Windows servers to be managed by HP SIM...............................................................29
Setting up HP-UX servers to be managed by HP SIM...................................................................36
Manually setting up an HP-UX managed system.....................................................................37
Configuring SNMP to send traps to the CMS....................................................................37
Configuring SSH access.................................................................................................37
Subscribing to WBEM indications/events:........................................................................37
Setting up Linux servers to be managed by HP SIM.....................................................................38
Configuring agents remotely using Configure or Repair Agents:...............................................38
Manually setting up Linux managed systems..........................................................................38
Installing and configuring SSH........................................................................................39
Configuring a Linux system to send SNMP traps................................................................39
4 Credentials..............................................................................................41
Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password pairs................................41
5 WMI Mapper Proxy ................................................................................43
6 Discovery................................................................................................45
Recommended discovery tasks.................................................................................................45
Options on the Discovery page................................................................................................46
Discovery credentials..............................................................................................................46
Configuring Configure or Repair Agents through a discovery task.................................................47
Viewing discovery task results...................................................................................................47
Discovery filters......................................................................................................................47
Discovering ESXi 5.0 and above with lockdown enabled in HP SIM 7.0.........................................47
Discovery of Gen8 servers.......................................................................................................48
7 Manage Communications..........................................................................49
Configuring the managed system software using the Configure or Repair Agents feature from the
CMS.....................................................................................................................................49
Sending test traps and indications.............................................................................................49
8 Automatic event handling..........................................................................51
Example automatic event handling tasks....................................................................................52
9 Users and Authorizations...........................................................................53
Users....................................................................................................................................53
User groups......................................................................................................................53
Toolboxes..............................................................................................................................53
10 Managed environment............................................................................55
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