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
27 HP Version Control and HP SIM
About the Version Control Agent
The HP VCA is an Insight Management Agent installed on a system that enables you to view HP
software and firmware installed on the system. You can configure: HP VCA to point to a repository
managed by HP VCRM, enabling easy version comparison and software updates from the repository
to the system where HP VCA is installed.
HP VCA provides version control and system update capabilities for a single HP system. HP VCA
determines system software status by comparing each component installed on the local system with
the set of individual components or a specified ProLiant and Integrity Support Packs listed in HP
VCRM. While browsing to HP VCA, you can update individual components or an entire ProLiant
and Integrity Support Packs by clicking the install icon located next to the system software status
icon.
HP VCRM and HP VCA are integrated with HP SMH, which is the standard single-server
management tool in the HP Foundation Pack. HP SIM, also part of the HP Foundation Pack, uses
HP VCRM and HP VCA to facilitate software versioning, update, and tasks related to it.
HP VCA is available for Windows and Linux operating systems. HP VCA is an integrated part of
HP SMH and displays the available software inventory of the system it is installed on. HP VCA
also allows the installation, comparison, and update of system software from a repository managed
by HP VCRM.
Users with administrator or operator privileges can access the HP VCA to maintain the software
inventory of the system. The installation of components and configuration activities are logged to
a log file on the system. HP VCA logs activities, such as software installations. However, installations
done outside HP VCA do not appear in this log.
HP VCA enables you to view software installed on selected HP equipment, available updates, and
whether the installed software complies with the latest updates in the selected repository. In addition,
you can add or update HP software on the system remotely, using the browser interface of HP
VCA.
You can use the Replicate Agent Settings feature in HP SIM to update multiple servers with HP VCA
settings.
HP VCA enables the following tasks:
• Viewing installed software
• Selecting an HP VCRM as a reference point for obtaining software updates
• Selecting a ProLiant and Integrity Support Packs as a managed baseline
• Viewing details of a ProLiant and Integrity Support Packs or software component that is in the
HP Version Control repository
• Installing a ProLiant and Integrity Support Packs or software component from the HP Version
Control repository
• Printing the installed software inventory and software status
• Managing the HP VCA log
In addition to maintaining the software inventory of the system, the HP VCA integrates with HP
SIM, enabling administrators to take advantage of the Software Update capabilities of the agent.
Additional resources
For additional resources, go to http://www.hp.com/servers/manage.
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