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
NOTE: Do not set this option if you have Insight Management Agents 7.2 or later
installed.
NOTE: If the remote system is running HP-UX, this option is not executed on the remote
system because it is not applicable on HP-UX systems. If you are configuring only HP-UX
target systems, you do not need to set this option.
If you select this option, you must complete the following steps:
a. In the Password field, enter the new administrator password.
b. In the Password (verify) field, re-enter the new administrator password.
• Select Configure Embedded Remote Support Settings for iLO Management Engine
to configure ERS settings. Select one of the following options:
1. Select Connect this server to an Insight Remote Suppprt hosting server and
enter the Remote Support URL and port.
2. Select Disable the Embedded Remote Support connection.
12. Click Next. The Step 4: Enter credentials page appears.
13. Enter the following credentials.
The credentials used in this step must work for all selected target systems. HP recommends
using domain administrator credentials. Credentials entered here are not saved by HP SIM
except to run a scheduled task later.
If you select Configure secure shell (SSH) access for a Windows target system, the account
you specify must be a member of the local Administrators group. For Windows targets using
a domain account, the account is automatically added to this group.
a. Select one of the following options:
• Use sign-in credentials These credentials must be a privileged account on the
managed system. The sign-in credentials option is available if the following options
are selected:
— Install WBEM/WMI Provider (HP Insight Management WBEM Provider) for
Windows
— Install Simple Network Management Protocol Agent (HP Insight Management
Agents) for Windows
— Install Linux PSP or ESX Agents
— Install the HP Version Control Agent for Windows
NOTE: This option is not available if you selected Install Open SSH or Register VM
Host on the âStep 2: Install Providers and Agents (Optional)â page.
• Use the following credentials for all systems.
b. In the User name field, enter the system administrator name.
c. In the Password field, enter the system administrator password.
d. In the Password (Verify) field, re-enter the system administrator password.
e. In the Domain (Optional) field, if you are using a domain account, enter the Windows
domain.
34 Setting up managed systems