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
Functionality when enabledDescriptionManagement standard
System identification, Inventory and
events
SNMP is widely used for management
but the widely implemented versions
1 and 2 have weak security. While
no set operations are used by HP SIM,
read access to system data might be
visible on the network. SNMP is
UDP-based. In many environments it
is not considered a suitable protocol
to pass through the firewall. Because
SNMPv1 has a simple, clear-text
community, it provides a low level of
security. However, SNMP can be
suitable for some environments in
which the network used for managing
systems is relatively controlled.
SNMP
Remote tool executionSSH is used for remote command
execution. HP SIM uses SSH to run
commands on managed systems.
SSH
Consistent server management across
vendors
A DMTF initiative for common server
management which enables
vendor-independent management
applications.
SMASH
System identificationAn SNIA standard for storage
management using WBEM.
SMI-S
Identification, inventory, and eventsA DMTF program with widespread
industry support with a set of
standards including CIM, CIM-XML,
and WS-Management. The CIM-XML
protocol is most widely used with
WBEM today, and the term WBEM is
often used to mean this protocol.
Note: Configure firewalls to allow the
CMS to communicate with managed
systems through default port 5989. If
you have modified the default port
setting for your WBEM provider, you
must configure your firewall for the
port number your WBEM provider on
which it is actually configured.
WBEM
Identification, inventory, and eventsA DMTF standard for exchanging
management information using web
services. You can use
WS-Management to transport CIM as
an alternative to CIM-XML.
WS-Management
Identification, inventory, and eventsWMI is Microsoft's implementation of
WBEM. WMI runs over Distributed
Component Object Model (DCOM),
which in turn, uses RPC. For Windows
systems behind a firewall, HP
recommends installing the WMI
Mapper on a managed system in the
secure network. This mapper allows
standard CIM-XML requests through
the firewall, and they are mapped to
WMI requests on the managed system.
WMI
204 Protocols used by HP SIM