HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

License unlicensed systems (optional) page.....................................................................171
License types..............................................................................................................172
Related information.....................................................................................................173
Reporting........................................................................................................................173
New Report................................................................................................................173
Manage Reports.........................................................................................................173
Snapshot comparison..................................................................................................175
Enhanced Reports.......................................................................................................175
Federated CMS Search tool..........................................................................................176
Reports by Product page..............................................................................................177
Reports by Product page buttons...................................................................................178
Select data to be displayed in the report:.......................................................................179
Related information.....................................................................................................180
Remote Support Configuration and Services........................................................................180
Remote Support Configuration and Services overview......................................................180
Configuring Remote Support Configuration and Services settings.......................................181
Using the Entitlement tab..............................................................................................181
Accessing Remote Support Configuration Services On-Line Help........................................183
6 Operations............................................................................................184
Customizing the Home page..................................................................................................184
Customizing the system status panel........................................................................................184
Enlarging the System Status panel...........................................................................................185
Utilizing RSS capabilities..................................................................................................186
Setting up managed systems from a Linux CMS........................................................................186
Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time.....................................187
Configuring the managed system software..........................................................................187
Setting up Linux managed systems manually........................................................................187
Setting up managed systems from a Windows CMS..................................................................187
Configuring the managed system software using the Configure or Repair Agents feature from the
CMS..............................................................................................................................187
Setting up managed systems from an HP-UX CMS.....................................................................188
Discovery in HP SIM.............................................................................................................189
Automatic discovery.........................................................................................................189
Internet Protocol..........................................................................................................189
Event-based automatic discovery...................................................................................189
First discovery..................................................................................................................190
Subsequent discoveries.....................................................................................................190
Hosts files.......................................................................................................................190
Options for adding a single system................................................................................191
Configuring automatic discovery........................................................................................191
For all automatic discoveries section..............................................................................192
Actions to take after running discovery section................................................................192
Discovery page buttons................................................................................................192
Configuring automatic discovery settings of VM guests..........................................................193
Configuring discovery general settings................................................................................193
Creating a new discovery task...........................................................................................195
Creating an automatic discovery task using the command line interface.............................197
Configuring credentials for discovery tasks..........................................................................197
Creating and editing discovery credentials for a single system..........................................197
Creating and editing discovery credentials for a group....................................................199
Related topics.............................................................................................................200
Configuring Configure or Repair Agents for discovery tasks..............................................200
Configuring system types for discovery tasks...................................................................201
Editing a discovery task...............................................................................................202
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