HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
I Introduction...............................................................................................11
1 About this document .............................................................................12
User Guide.....................................................................................................................................12
Systems Insight Manager User Guide layout........................................................................................12
2 Product overview ..................................................................................13
Systems Insight Manager features.......................................................................................................13
Basic concepts................................................................................................................................13
Discovery and identification.........................................................................................................13
Inventory...................................................................................................................................13
Status info.................................................................................................................................13
Reports......................................................................................................................................14
Automatic event handling............................................................................................................14
Tools and tasks...........................................................................................................................14
Collections.................................................................................................................................14
Users and Authorizations.............................................................................................................14
Signing in and using the graphical user interface.................................................................................15
Security Alerts in Internet Explorer and Firefox................................................................................15
Automatically signing in..............................................................................................................15
Configuring the CMS.............................................................................................................15
Configuring the browser.........................................................................................................16
Behavior..............................................................................................................................16
Guided tour of the Systems Insight Manager user interface...............................................................17
Customizing views......................................................................................................................18
II Setting up Systems Insight Manager............................................................19
3 Setting up managed systems ..................................................................20
Setting up Windows servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager................................................20
Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on a Systems Insight Manager Windows systems for the first time....20
Requirements........................................................................................................................20
Installing the ProLiant Support Pack..........................................................................................20
Setting up HP-UX servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager....................................................22
Manually setting up an HP-UX managed system..............................................................................23
Configuring SNMP to send traps to the CMS.............................................................................23
Configuring SSH access.........................................................................................................24
Subscribing to WBEM indications/events:................................................................................24
Setting up Linux servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager......................................................25
Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time................................................25
Configuring agents remotely using Configure or Repair Agents:........................................................25
Manually setting up Linux managed systems...................................................................................25
Installing and configuring SSH................................................................................................25
Configuring a Linux system to send SNMP traps.........................................................................25
4 Credentials ..........................................................................................27
Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password pairs.........................................27
5 WMI Mapper Proxy .............................................................................29
6 Discovery ............................................................................................30
Recommended discovery tasks...........................................................................................................30
Options on the Discovery page.........................................................................................................31
Discovery credentials........................................................................................................................31
Configuring Configure or Repair Agents through a discovery task..........................................................31
Viewing discovery task results............................................................................................................31
Discovery filters...............................................................................................................................32
7 Manage Communications ......................................................................33
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