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
G System Type Manager rules
System Type Manager enables you to extend HP SIM's SNMP-based discovery so that it is able
to identify new types of systems. You do this by creating a System Type Manager rule that maps
a System Object ID (OID), and optionally an additional MIB variable, to the desired type.
Manufacturers assign unique System OIDs to their SNMP-instrumented products.
Systems supply information about themselves using variables described in files called MIBs. These
values are enumerated using an industry-standard structure. MIBs are provided by vendors for their
systems and must be registered with HP SIM to be accessible and usable from System Type Manager.
HP preregisters all HP MIBs and many third-party MIBs. You can register the remaining MIBs using
the MIB compiler, if you have the related systems on your network. If you examine a MIB, you will
find modules, or groups of variables. Some variables have multiple values. Each of these values
has an OID as well. You can use these OIDs to determine which system you have and its current
behavior by querying these OIDs. For a list of default MIBs supplied by HP SIM, see
Appendix I “Out-of-the-box MIB support in HP SIM”.
You might need to enter a MIB variable OID if you have systems that return the same System OID
that you would like to classify as different products based on an SNMP variable that returns a
different value for each class. For example, if you have Windows NT servers from different vendors
that return the same Windows NT System OID, you can specify rules using the Windows NT OID
as the OID and a vendor-specific MIB variable and value combination to create separate rules for
each vendor.
Adding new SNMP rules
You can create a new SNMP-based rule using the command line utility (mxstm) or by selecting
Options→Manage System Types from the HP SIM user interface. Within the SNMP framework,
manageable network systems (routers, bridges, servers, and so on) contain a software component
called a management agent. The agent monitors the various subsystems of the network element
and stores this information in a MIB. The agents enable the system to generate traps, which can
be configured to be sent to a trap destination server that is running HP SIM.
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