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
About the Version Control Repository Manager
HP VCRM is an Insight Management Agent that manages a directory of HP software and firmware
components. You can use HP VCRM without HP VCA to provide a listing of available software
and firmware to load on the local machine. HP VCRM is part of the HP Foundation Pack.
HP VCRM is designed to be used in a one-to-many configuration with a HP VCA installed on each
managed HP system to manage installed HP software and firmware. In conjunction with HP SIM,
HP VCRM, and HP VCA provides enterprise management of HP software and firmware on HP
ProLiant and Integrity systems. Alone, HP VCRM can catalog and manage a repository of ProLiant
and Integrity Support Packs and software and firmware for HP ProLiant and Integrity systems.
NOTE: Although you can install ProLiant and Integrity Support Packs or component to the local
machine using HP VCRM, you cannot install the software on remote servers unless HP VCA is
installed on the remote server and using HP VCA.
HP VCRM permits the following tasks:
• Viewing the contents of the repository
• Configuring Automatic Update to deliver ProLiant software from HP as it becomes available
• Uploading a support pack to the repository from a CD or other accessible media using the
Upload a Support Pack feature
• Creating ProLiant and Integrity Support Packs
• Deleting ProLiant and Integrity Support Packs and components
• Copying ProLiant and Integrity Support Packs and components to another repository
• Configuring components in the repository that are flagged as requiring configuration
• Updating from HP.com now
• Rescanning the repository and rebuilding the catalog
• Managing the log
• Installing selected components at the local (browser client) system
About integration
For software versioning and updating, HP SIM relies on HP VCRM and HP VCA. By using these
applications, HP SIM provides a single view of the software status for managed ProLiant or Integrity
servers, and it can update software and firmware on those servers through its powerful query and
task features. Updates can be scheduled and applied to specific sets of servers based on
predetermined criteria, including applying updates only to systems that require an update.
NOTE: HP SIM no longer requires the VCA to be installed on target systems. The new SW/FW
Baselines feature performs this task.
To take full advantage of the software update capabilities of HP SIM, verify that the following
conditions are met:
• Every managed target server on the network has the HP VCA installed and is configured to
use a repository.
• Every repository that is to be used has the HP VCRM installed.
• You can optionally use the automatic update feature of the HP VCRM to automatically update
all repositories with the latest software from HP.
About software repositories
Updating ProLiant Support Packs and components using HP VCRM from a single or multiple
repositories saves time and is key to standardizing software maintenance and update procedures
on distributed systems.
160 HP Version Control and HP SIM