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

Insight Remote Support Advanced compatibility
IMPORTANT:
If a version prior to A.05.40 of Insight Remote Support Advanced is installed, you must update it
to version A.05.40 or higher to preserve configuration information and avoid some manual
configuration steps. The latest version of Insight Remote Support Advanced is available at: https://
h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do? productNumber=RSADVANCED
Database firewall settings
When using MSDE (or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition), Microsoft SQL, or Oracle
database server located on a remote Windows XP SP2 server, the firewall settings on the remote
server must be turned off. To do this:
1. Select Start→Control Panel→Windows Firewall.
2. Select Off.
Annotating the portal UI
Annotation refers to adding a small amount of textual information, such as the name of the Central
Management Server (CMS), near the product name when browsing to the CMS. Areas that can
be annotated are the browser's title bar, the sign-in page, and the banner. Annotation is supported
by adding values to globalsettings.props entries whose names are:
ANNOTATION_SIGN_IN_PAGE_HTML
ANNOTATION_BANNER_HTML
ANNOTATION_BROWSER_TITLE_TEXT
The names all begin with ANNOTATION_ so that they sort together and are easy to find. They end
with _HTML or _TEXT to indicate how the value is treated as HTML or text. Note that simple text
is valid HTML.
Browser title annotation uses ANNOTATION_BROWSER_TITLE_TEXT:
• The annotation is appended to the product name in the browser title.
• The annotation is treated as text.
• The annotation is prepended with a space.
Sign-in page annotation uses ANNOTATION_SIGN_IN_PAGE_HTML:
• The annotation is put below the product name.
• The annotation is treated as HTML.
• The annotation uses the same style (font, font size, and so on) as the product name but can
be modified by using HTML in the annotation.
Banner annotation uses ANNOTATION_BANNER_HTML:
• The annotation is appended to the product name in the banner of the portal.
• The annotation is prepended with a space, for both maximized and normal portal states.
• The annotation uses the same style (font, font size, etc.) as the product name but can be
modified by using HTML in the annotation.
The globalsettings.props file is a text file that can be manually edited. It is located at:
• On Windows: It is typically located at C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight
Manager\config\globalsettings.props.
• On HP-UX and Linux: It is located at /etc/opt/mx/config/globalsettings.props.
Alternatively, when setting simple values, the mxglobalsettings command line utility can be
used. The following is an example of setting simple values from the command line:
mxglobalsettings -s ANNOTATION_SIGN_IN_PAGE_HTML=alwayson.company.com
172 Important Notes