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
events on any system collection, such as Security Events on All Servers or Security Events on My
FinancialServers.
Conversely, you can choose a system collection, and view any set of events on those systems. For
example, you can easily select My FinancialServers and look at All Events, Sign-in Events, Security
Events, or any other event collection as it applies to that collection of systems.
Users and Authorizations
HP SIM enables effective delegation of management responsibilities by giving system administrators
granular control over which users can perform specific management operations on specific systems.
Signing in and using the graphical user interface
HP SIM provides a browser-based GUI. Supported browsers include:
• For Windows:
— Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
— Firefox 3 (3.0.13) or later
• For HP-UX:
Firefox 2(2.0.0.19.020 or later
To download, go to http://www.hp.com/go/firefox.
• For Linux:
Firefox 3.0.10 or later
NOTE: Browser settings:
• For all Windows Internet Explorer browsers, you must have the SSL 3.0 or Transport Layer
Security (TLS) 1.0 browser security options enabled for HP SIM to work properly, which allows
only stronger ciphers for the SSL connection.
• To use automatic sign-in with Firefox, you must configure Firefox with a list of sites with
automatic sign-in. For more information, see Initial setup section of the HP SIM online help.
Security Alerts in Internet Explorer and Firefox
Because the HP SIM web server uses a self-signed SSL certificate (unless otherwise configured),
you will encounter a browser warning when browsing to the CMS. Firefox warns of an Untrusted
Connection. Internet Explorer warns of a Certificate Error. Both browsers let you continue, but you
can take measures to avoid repeatedly encountering those warnings. This applies to HP SIM, HP
SMH, Integrated Lights-Out (iLO), Onboard Administrator, and all web servers you browse to.
Each time you receive an Untrusted Connection warning in Firefox, you must add a permanent
security exception to avoid seeing the warning again for that host. Note that if you browse to a
single system using its short host name, fully qualified Domain Name Service (FQDN), and IP
address (for example, three different ways), you must add three security exceptions.
With Internet Explorer, you must install the SSL certificate into the Trusted Root Certification
Authorities certificate store, but the browser will continue to warn you (by default) when details
in the certificate do not match (for example, browsing by short host name when the full host name
is in the certificate). To avoid certificate errors when names do not match, the following setting
must be turned off: Internet Explorer→Advanced→Security→Warn about certificate address
mismatch.
If you do not install the SSL certificate in Internet Explorer 8, these warnings appear for each pop-up
window that appears in HP SIM.
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