Administrator's and User's Guide for SFM HP-UX 11i v2 December 2008

4 Administering Indications and Instances Using HP SIM
This chapter describes System Fault Management (SFM) administration on a remote system
using HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM).
NOTE: You can perform similar tasks using other management applications that are compliant
with the Common Information Model (CIM) (2.7.2) schema of the Distributed Management Task
Force (DMTF).
The terms events and indications are used interchangeably in this document.
This chapter addresses the following topics:
• “Creating Subscriptions and Viewing Indications Using HP SIM ” (page 37)
• “Viewing Instances” (page 46)
Creating Subscriptions and Viewing Indications Using HP SIM
To view instances and events generated on a managed system, you must create subscriptions.
When you create subscriptions on the Central Management Server (CMS) using HP SIM,
indications are delivered to the CMS whenever an event occurs on the managed system.
NOTE: By default, cimserver does not allow non-privileged user to create subscriptions. This
operation can be performed only by a superuser.
However, you can override this default behavior by setting the configuration parameter
enableSubscriptionsForNonprivilegedUsers to true in the cimserver using the
cimconfig command. Since enableSubscriptionsForNonprivilegedUsers is not a
dynamic configuration property, you cannot change it when cimserver is running. For more
information, view cimcofig manpage. See /opt/sfm/share/man/man
This section discusses the following topics:
• “Creating Subscriptions” (page 37)
• “ Viewing Indications” (page 42)
Creating Subscriptions
To create subscriptions using HP SIM, complete the following steps:
1. Enter the following URL to launch HP SIM on your browser: http://<system name>:<port
number>/
The system name is the name of the CMS.
For example: http://abc.com:280/
The HP SIM home page is launched.
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