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
Status info
The following status icons are used in the status list columns to show status on different aspects of
the managed systems. For example, the MP column displays the status icon of the management
processor if the system has a management processor board installed.
Table 2-1 Status types
Status typeStatus icon
Critical
Major
Minor
Warning
Normal
Disabled
Unknown
Informational
Reports
HP SIM performs comprehensive system data collection and enables you to quickly produce detailed
inventory reports for managed systems. Reports can be generated in Hyper Text Markup Language
(HTML), XML, or Comma Separated Value (CSV) format. Enhanced reports can be automatically
generated and e-mailed on a scheduled basis. The type of data collected depends on the
management software (SNMP agents or WBEM/WMI providers) that is installed.
Automatic event handling
Automatic event handling enables you to define an action that HP SIM performs when an event is
received. These actions can include running a program or script, forwarding the event to another
management system, clearing the event, or notifying a user through e-mail or pager.
Tools and tasks
Tools are actions you perform on the managed systems from within HP SIM's GUI or CLI. Many
tools ship with HP SIM, but you can also add your own custom tools. Tasks are instances of running
tools. To create a task, select target systems (systems or events that the task will work on) and then
select the tool from the HP SIM menu. Tasks can be run immediately or scheduled, and you can
view task results by selecting Tasks & Logs→View Task Results .
Tools can be run from the HP SIM menus and can be added to a Quick Launch list that is available
from many pages within HP SIM.
Collections
Collections are groups of systems and events that can be used for viewing information, or as a
way to specify the targets for a tool. They can be created through the Customize link in the
System and Event Collections panel either by selecting specific systems to be included, or by
specifying attributes to be matched. Once created, they are displayed in the System and Event
Collections panel for quick access. Shared collections can be seen by everyone logging into HP
SIM. Private collections can only be seen by the user who created them.
You can bind event collections and system collections together and use them either separately or
together. For example, after you define a collection of Security Events, you can easy look at those
20 Product overview