HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes

Table Of Contents
General System Administration
HP Systems Insight Manager
Chapter 5
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HIM SIM now has flexible role-based security that enables you to decide which
administrators can have access to server and storage details.
HP SIM now enables you to launch server and storage element managers from a
single system viewer.
Lists and folders are now called collections.
You now have the ability to assign privileges to operating system user groups to give
these users access to HP SIM without creating each individual user.
Improved access to discovery options includes a Discovery page with tabs for
Automatic, Manual, and Hosts Files configuration.
New command line interface (CLI) commands include mxreport, mxcert,
mxglobalprotocolsettings, mxglobalsettings, mxcollections, and
mxgethostname.
You now have the ability to set system properties for multiple systems at the same
time.
You now have the ability to suspend or resume monitoring of multiple systems at the
same time.
A new tree view is available for system and cluster collections.
You now have the ability to create, edit, and delete discovery tasks.
You now have the ability to create new command line tools including copying a file,
removing a tool, and creating command line, Web launch, and X window tools on
HP-UX and Linux systems.
HP SIM now supports the use of an Oracle database (locally or remotely) for
Windows, HP-UX, and Linux.
HP SIM has added support for managed system configuration to include Linux,
HP-UX, and Windows operating systems.
First Time Wizard provides you with step-by-step, online guidance for performing
the initial configuration of HP SIM, and helps you configure HP SIM settings on the
central management server (CMS).
HP SIM supports upgrading from version 4.x to version 5.0.
The HP Services analysis tools, Web-Based Enterprise Services (WEBES) and Open
Service Event Manager (OSEM), generate service notifications to HP SIM through a
specific SNMP trap type if analysis has determined there are serviceable events. If
Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE) is installed, the service notification
provided by WEBES and OSEM also provides status about the remote support
incident.
The bundle tag for HP SIM has changed from T2414BA to HPSIM-HP-UX.
Impact
There are no impacts other than those listed previously.