HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Setting up systems using the HP Insight managed system setup wizard
Insight managed system setup wizard enables you to configure systems to be managed with HP
SIM and its plug-in applications. After you successfully complete this wizard, the selected managed
systems are set up with the necessary agents, licenses, and configuration steps for the management
features you specify.
You can re-run this wizard at any time to change the configuration or management features of
your systems. This wizard can also be used to diagnose configuration issues with your systems.
For HP SIM, you can configure:
• Protocol preferences by selecting WBEM, SNMP, or both
• SSH public authentication by selecting between User based authentication and Host based
authentication
• SSH user name for public key authentication check and setup
Monitoring feature
The Monitoring feature enables HP SIM to discovery and identify systems with basic information
and monitor them through ping status. Basic information includes model system type, subtype,
serial number, UUID, and so on of the managed systems. This feature is supported on all servers,
management processors, switches, and Unknown or Unmanaged systems and can run without
installing any of the HP agents or providers. The Central Management Server (CMS) must be
preconfigured, including credentials, global protocol settings, WMI Mapper Proxy and so on. For
additional information on configuring these features quickly, see First Time Wizard.
Configuration
To configure global credentials, see Global credentials.
To configure system credentials, see System credentials.
To configure global protocol settings, see Protocol settings.
To configure WMI Mapper Proxy settings, see Adding a WMI Mapper Proxy.
The Monitoring feature checks for HP SIM discovery and identification errors, which appear on
the Analyze Systems page.
When you receive errors from the monitoring feature, check credentials, protocol settings, and
other Central Management Server (CMS) configuration, including firewall configuration on the
managed systems.
For more detailed information on errors received, run HP SIM identification and review the
identification task results.
Inventory feature
HP SIM inventory collects inventory data from managed systems. To successfully do so, HP SIM
depends on SNMP agents and WBEM providers. The Insight managed system setup wizard
Inventory feature is supported on HP servers with Linux, HP-UX, and Windows operating systems
and ESX and Citrix VM Hosts with Hypervisor operating systems.
The inventory feature is dependent on the monitoring feature of HP SIM with the same protocol.
Configuration
To configure discovery, see Discovery in HP SIM.
To edit system properties for a single system, see Editing system properties for a single system.
You can install WBEM/WMI providers and SNMP agents from the Choose Options page in Insight
managed system setup wizard. For all other servers, you must manually install providers agents.
50 Initial setup