HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

First Time Wizard summary ...................................................................................................................37
Finishing the First Time Wizard ..............................................................................................................37
Operating-system-specific collections, reports, and tools ............................................................................37
Operating-system-specific collections...................................................................................................37
Operating-system-specific reports.......................................................................................................38
Operating-system-specific tools...........................................................................................................38
Windows..................................................................................................................................38
Linux.........................................................................................................................................38
HP-UX.......................................................................................................................................39
Other........................................................................................................................................39
6 Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu................................................40
Configuring protocol settings..................................................................................................................40
Adding users........................................................................................................................................41
Adding toolboxes..................................................................................................................................43
Adding authorizations...........................................................................................................................43
Configuring email settings......................................................................................................................45
Setting up automatic event handling........................................................................................................45
Configuring and executing discovery.......................................................................................................48
Configuring and executing automatic discovery...................................................................................48
Configuring a discovery task.............................................................................................................50
Configuring WMI Mapper.....................................................................................................................50
7 Configuring managed systems....................................................................52
Configuring the Managed System Software..............................................................................................52
Running the Configure or Repair Agents feature from the CMS...............................................................52
Setting up Linux managed systems manually........................................................................................52
8 Upgrading from HP Systems Insight Manager ..............................................54
Upgrading HP SIM 5.x in Linux...............................................................................................................54
Installing HP System Management Homepage and HP SIM.........................................................................56
9 Uninstalling HP Systems Insight Manager.....................................................57
Uninstalling HP Systems Insight Manager from a Linux system......................................................................57
10 Using the graphical user interface.............................................................58
Accessing the GUI................................................................................................................................58
Security Alert in Internet Explorer.............................................................................................................58
Graphical user interface features.............................................................................................................59
Customizing the GUI.............................................................................................................................60
Customizing the Home Page..............................................................................................................60
Customizing the System Status Panel...................................................................................................61
11 Using the command line interface.............................................................62
Logging in to the CLI.............................................................................................................................62
Logging in to the CMS directly...........................................................................................................62
Logging in remotely using an SSH client..............................................................................................62
manpages............................................................................................................................................62
12 Configuration options..............................................................................63
CPU utilization during data collection......................................................................................................63
Overview........................................................................................................................................63
Implementation................................................................................................................................63
GUI time-out policy...............................................................................................................................63
Overview........................................................................................................................................63
Implementation................................................................................................................................64
HP SIM audit log configuration...............................................................................................................64
Overview........................................................................................................................................64
Implementation................................................................................................................................64
Configuring task results..........................................................................................................................65
Overview........................................................................................................................................65
Configuring task results settings.........................................................................................................65
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