HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 User Guide

Table of Contents
I Introduction...............................................................................................13
1 About this document.............................................................................17
User Guide.......................................................................................................................17
HP SIM User Guide layout..................................................................................................17
2 Product overview..................................................................................19
HP SIM features.................................................................................................................19
Basic concepts..................................................................................................................19
Discovery and identification............................................................................................19
Inventory......................................................................................................................19
Status info....................................................................................................................20
Reports........................................................................................................................20
Automatic event handling...............................................................................................20
Tools and tasks.............................................................................................................20
Collections...................................................................................................................20
Users and Authorizations................................................................................................21
Signing in and using the graphical user interface...................................................................21
Security Alerts in Internet Explorer and Firefox...................................................................21
Automatically signing in.................................................................................................22
Configuring the CMS................................................................................................22
Configuring the browser............................................................................................22
Behavior.................................................................................................................23
Guided tour of the HP SIM user interface..........................................................................23
Customizing views.........................................................................................................24
II Setting up HP SIM.....................................................................................25
3 Setting up managed systems..................................................................29
Configure or Repair Agents.................................................................................................29
Setting up Windows servers to be managed by HP SIM..........................................................29
Setting up HP-UX servers to be managed by HP SIM...............................................................36
Manually setting up an HP-UX managed system................................................................37
Configuring SNMP to send traps to the CMS................................................................37
Configuring SSH access............................................................................................37
Subscribing to WBEM indications/events:...................................................................37
Setting up Linux servers to be managed by HP SIM................................................................38
Configuring agents remotely using Configure or Repair Agents:...........................................38
Manually setting up Linux managed systems.....................................................................38
Installing and configuring SSH...................................................................................39
Configuring a Linux system to send SNMP traps............................................................39
4 Credentials..........................................................................................41
Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password pairs...........................41
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