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
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)........................................................................117
Secure Task Execution (STE) and Single Sign-On (SSO).........................................................117
Distributed Task Facility (DTF).............................................................................................117
WBEM...........................................................................................................................118
LDAP..............................................................................................................................118
RMI................................................................................................................................118
Credentials management.......................................................................................................118
SSL certificates.................................................................................................................118
HP SIM main certificate................................................................................................118
HP SIM Single Sigon-On (SSO) certificate......................................................................118
Key Length.................................................................................................................118
Using the main certificate for SSO.................................................................................119
WBEM certificate........................................................................................................119
Upgrading to HP SIM 7.0.............................................................................................119
Certificate expiration and Certificate Revocation Check (CLR Check).......................................119
Certificate sharing............................................................................................................119
SSH keys........................................................................................................................119
Passwords.......................................................................................................................120
Browser...............................................................................................................................120
SSL................................................................................................................................120
Cookies..........................................................................................................................120
Passwords.......................................................................................................................120
Password warnings...........................................................................................................120
Browser session...............................................................................................................121
Internet Explorer zones.....................................................................................................121
System link format............................................................................................................121
Operating-system dependencies.............................................................................................122
User accounts and authentication.......................................................................................122
File system......................................................................................................................122
Background processes......................................................................................................122
Windows Cygwin............................................................................................................122
HP-UX and Linux..............................................................................................................122
HP SIM database.................................................................................................................123
SQL Server and MSDE.....................................................................................................123
Remote SQL Server..........................................................................................................123
PostgreSQL......................................................................................................................123
Oracle...........................................................................................................................123
Command-line interface.........................................................................................................123
How to: configuration checklist...............................................................................................123
General..........................................................................................................................123
Configuring the CMS.......................................................................................................124
Strong security.................................................................................................................124
Configuring managed systems...........................................................................................124
How to: lockdown versus ease of use on Windows systems........................................................125
Moderate.......................................................................................................................125
Strong............................................................................................................................125
21 Privilege elevation.................................................................................127
22 Contract and warranty..........................................................................129
Viewing contract and warranty information..............................................................................129
Collecting contract and warranty data.....................................................................................129
Viewing contract and warranty status......................................................................................130
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