HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90023, September 2010)

1 Introduction
This chapter provides an introduction to the management tools used to perform routine
system tasks.
Configuration Tools
There are three ways (at least) to configure your HP-UX system:
• Via the web using the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). [Multi-system
Management]
• Directly on the system with the text-based HP-UX System Management Homepage
(HP SMH) or via the web using the web-based HP SMH.
• Directly with HP-UX commands.
HP Systems Insight Manager
The HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) provides web-based multiple system
management. You can use it to configure and manage not only HP-UX systems, but
also HP Linux systems and HP Windows® systems, as well as non-HP Linux and
Windows systems. HP SIM makes use of the HP SMH interface and other tools. It is
fully described in HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for
HP-UX and other the other HP SIM documents on HP Systems Insight Manager
6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX.
You can also use HP Insight Dynamics — Virtual Server Environment (HP Insight
Dynamics — VSE) together with HP SIM to manage server resources. HP Insight
Dynamics — VSE is an integrated set of multi-platform products and technologies that
provides the visualization, configuration, workload policy, application management,
and capacity planning tools to optimize your system resources.
The HP Insight Dynamics — VSE management software includes the following products
and technologies:
• HP Virtualization Manager
• HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM)
• HP Capacity Advisor
• HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager
• HP Application Discovery
• HP Instant Capacity Manager
• Process Resource Manager (PRM) graphical user interface
• Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) providers and other VSE agents
One of the advantages of using HP SIM with HP Insight Dynamics — VSE is the ability
of launching HP Virtualization Manager from HP SIM. With the appropriate set up,
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