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
9 Users and Authorizations
HP SIM enables you to configure authorizations for specific users or user groups. Authorizations
give the user access to view and manage systems. Each authorization specifies a user or user
group, a toolbox, and a system or system group. The specific set of tools that can be run on a
system is specified in the assigned toolbox.
You must plan which systems each user will manage and which specific set of tools each user is
authorized to execute on managed systems. A user with no toolbox authorizations on a particular
system cannot view or manage that system.
Authorizations are cumulative. If a user is authorized for Toolbox1 and Toolbox2 on the same
system, the user is authorized for all tools in both Toolbox1 and Toolbox2 on that system. Similarly,
a user authorized for the All Tools toolbox on a system requires no other toolbox authorizations
on that system because the All Tools toolbox always includes all tools. See the Systems Insight
Manager online help for more information on setting up users and authorizations.
Users
Create user accounts to sign-in to HP SIM. The account must be valid on the operating system
(including Active Directory on Windows) on the CMS and is authenticated by the CMS. You must
know the operating system user account name of the user you are adding, but it is not necessary
to know the password.
User groups
User groups must exist in the operating system. For Windows, they must also exist in Active Directory.
Members of user groups in the operating system can sign-in to HP SIM and inherit the group's
attributes for configuration rights, sign-in IP address restrictions, and authorizations. When a group's
configuration rights, sign-in IP address restrictions, or authorizations are changed, this change is
immediately reflected for all current members of the group.
With configuration rights, the user inherits the highest setting. With sign-in IP address restrictions,
the user inherits all entries. With authorizations, the user inherits all authorizations.
NOTE: A user's group membership is determined at sign-in. If a user's group membership changes
in the operating system, it is not reflected in HP SIM until the next time the user signs in to HP SIM.
Toolboxes
Toolboxes are used to configure a group of tools for each user that has access. Toolboxes are set
up so that some users can use the group of tools to which each user has access but not others. For
example, an administrator has access to more tools than a user.
NOTE: For users with operator rights and user rights to clear, delete, assign events, and add
comments to events, you must select Configuration Tool from the Show tools in category
dropdown list. Then, select Clear Events, Delete Events, Assign Events, and Comment Events
as necessary, and then click to add them to the Toolbox contents.
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