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
For maximum manageability and flexibility across operating system platforms, each repository you
create must conform to the following conditions:
• It must be located on a local drive with write access.
• It must be updated automatically by the HP VCRM.
• It must be managed by HP VCRM.
After a repository is created, it must be populated with ProLiant Support Packs and components
before being updated on target HP systems. Although it is optional, the easiest and most efficient
way to update a repository is by using the Automatic Update feature of HP VCRM. This feature
enables you to schedule an automatic population of the repository. However, the repository can
be updated in one or more of the following ways:
• By using the Automatic Update feature of HP VCRM
• By using the Upload ProLiant Support Pack feature of HP VCRM, which enables users to easily
copy ProLiant Support Packs from a SmartStart CD or other accessible media
• By manually downloading the software into the repository from http://www.hp.com/go/
softwaredepot
About multiple system management
The Software Update capabilities of HP SIM includes the following features:
• Install Software and Firmware. Use to automatically update ProLiant Support Packs and
components on HP systems managed by HP SIM. The target systems must have HP VCA
installed.
• Searching by systems with Software/Firmware. Use to create and display a list of systems
with specific software or firmware versions. For example, a user with administrative rights
might want to locate and display HP systems with Insight Management Agent earlier than a
defined version. The search can then be used with the Install Software and Firmware Task to
update the systems to the current version of Insight Management Agent.
• Software Version Status Polling. Use to retrieve software and firmware upgrade statuses from
HP VCA on target systems. Software and firmware inventories are also retrieved from those
systems during this task.
• Replicate Agent Settings. Use to have HP SIM to retrieve Web Agent configuration settings
from a source device and distribute that configuration to target systems through their Web
Agents.
These capabilities rely on the integration of HP SIM with HP VCRM and HP VCA.
About the Version Control Agent 161