HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

Hp systems insight manager 5.1 user guide

HP Systems Insight Manager 5.1 User Guide

Printed in the US
HP Part Number: 356920-009
Published: January 2007
Edition: 5.1

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HP Systems Insight Manager 5.1 User Guide
Table of Contents
1 Legal notices
- Warranty
- Restricted rights legend
- Copyright notice
- Trademark notices
- Release history
2 Introduction
- Online help
- HP SIM help categories
3 Product overview
- Additional resources
- Features
- What's new?
- Product architecture
- Assistance
- System requirements
4 Getting started
- Product registration
- Signing in
  - Signing in to the GUI
    - Signing in using SSL
  - Logging in to the CLI
    - Logging in directly on the CMS
    - Using an SSH client remotely
- Signing out
  - Signing out from the GUI
  - Logging out from the Command Line Interface (CLI)
- First Time Wizard
- Setting up managed systems
- Performing initial setup
  - Initial setup process
- Navigating the Home page
  - Graphical user interface features
- Customizing the Home page
- Customizing the System Status panel
- Enlarging the System Status panel
  - Utilizing RSS capabilities
- Setting language locale
- Using command line interface commands
- Resource library
5 Discovery and identification
- Automatic discovery
- First discovery
- Subsequent discoveries
- Manual discovery
  - Hosts files
  - Options for adding a single system
- Configuring automatic discovery
- Configuring automatic discovery general settings
  - Discovery filters
- Managing discovery templates
- Adding a system manually
  - Command line interface
- Managing hosts files
- Identification
  - Initial identification
  - Identifying systems
- Manage system types
6 Users and authorizations
- User configuration rights
- Users and authorizations tabs
- Users and user groups
- Toolboxes
- Authorizations
7 Directory Services
- Configuring directory servers
- Configuring directory groups
8 Networking and security
- Secure Sockets Layer and certificates
- Sign in and accounts
- Single Login, Replicate Agent Settings, and Install Software and Firmware
- Certificates
- About login
- About secure task execution
- Configuring the system link
- Configuring login events
- Configuring browser timeout options
- Changing the HP SIM default SSL port
- Server certificates
- Trusted certificates
9 Monitoring systems, clusters, and events
- About collections
- Types of collections
- Navigating the System and Event Collections panel
- Viewing the System Overview page
  - Health Status
  - Uncleared Event Status
- Customizing system or cluster collections
- Customizing event collections
- System table view page
- Cluster table view page
- Event table view page
- Searching for systems and events
- Reference
  - Default shared collections
    - Shared system collections
    - Shared event collections
  - Collection naming conventions
10 Storage integration
- Storage integration using SMI-S
- Storage integration using SNMP
11 Managing with tasks
- User privileges
- About default polling tasks
- Creating a task
  - Command line interface
  - Default tools
- Task Wizard settings
- Navigating the All Scheduled Tasks page
- Scheduling a task
- Task results list
- Stopping a task
- Deleting task results
  - Command line interface
- Applying a time filter
- Task status types
12 Tools that extend management
- Cluster Monitor
  - Configuring cluster resource settings
  - Configuring node resource settings
  - Cluster Monitor Cluster tab
  - Cluster Monitor Nodes tab
  - Cluster Monitor Network tab
  - Cluster Monitor Resources tab
  - MSCS status
    - Monitoring MSCS status
  - Cluster resources supported by HP SIM
    - Cluster Monitor states
  - Cluster Monitor resources and associated settings
  - Cluster Monitor polling rate
    - Polling rates
  - Cluster Monitor resource thresholds
    - Threshold overview
      - Disk capacity thresholds
      - CPU utilization thresholds
- Command line tools
  - Command line interface
- Configure or Repair Agents overview
  - Overview
  - Configure or Repair Agents
    - Configuring managed systems
    - Related Topics
  - Result log
- Custom tools
  - Menu placement
  - Creating a new remote tool
  - Creating a new CMS tool
  - Creating a new web page tool
  - Managing custom tools
  - Editing a remote tool
  - Editing a CMS tool
  - Editing a web page tool
  - Deleting a custom tool
  - Viewing tool definition files
  - Removing and restoring custom tools
    - Removing a tool
    - Restoring a tool
  - Environment variables for custom tools
  - Examples of using parameter strings in custom tools
  - Custom tools reference
- Configuring DMI access
- Configuring SNMP access
- Device ping
- Disk thresholds
  - Setting disk thresholds
  - Removing disk thresholds
  - Setting disk thresholds
  - Creating a task to delete disk thresholds on a monthly basis
    - Creating the task
- License manager
  - About licenses
  - Collecting license information
  - Viewing licensed systems
  - Managing licenses
  - Adding licenses individually
  - Adding licenses from a file
  - Assigning and un-assigning licenses
    - Assigning a license
    - Unassigning a license
  - System license information reporting
  - Licensing with ProLiant Essentials applications
- Management processor tools
  - Controlling system power options through management processors
  - Controlling the system locator LED through management processors
  - Creating new users on management processors
  - Editing management processor users
  - Deleting management processor users
  - Configuring LAN access on management processors
  - Configuring LDAP settings on management processors
  - Executing internal control actions through management processors
  - Upgrading management processor firmware
  - Deploying SSH public keys to management processors
  - Cycling on the power on an HP ProLiant iLO
  - Powering on a system manged by an HP ProLiant iLO
  - Powering off a system managed by an HP ProLiant iLO
  - Turning on the UID for a system managed by an HP ProLiant iLO
  - Turning off the UID for a system managed by an HP ProLiant iLO
- Managing MIBs
  - Viewing a MIB
  - Editing a MIB
  - Compiling a MIB
  - Registering a MIB
  - Unregistering a MIB
  - Presentation of SNMP traps in HP SIM
- Installing OpenSSH
  - Deploying OpenSSH to multiple systems using RDP
    - Installing OpenSSH Using RDP
    - Copying the public key from HP SIM to the target systems
  - Creating an OpenSSH task through the CLI
- PMP tools
- Replicate Agent Settings
  - Creating a Replicate Agent Settings task
  - Replicate Agent Settings - Reference
- RPM Package Manager
  - Installing RPM
  - Uninstalling RPM
  - Querying RPM
  - Verifying RPM
- Server Migration Pack
  - Server Migration Pack licensing
  - Accessing the Server Migration Pack
- System Management Homepage
  - Accessing the System Management Homepage
- System Page
  - System tab
    - System Status
    - More Information
    - Identification
      - Why is the system named "orphan_nnn"?
    - Product Description
    - HP Insight Power Manager
    - Contact Information
    - Entitlement Information
    - Asset Information
    - Management Processor
    - Host Server
    - Storage Server
    - Associations
  - System tab for management processors
    - System Status
    - Identification
    - Product Description
      - Entitlement Information
  - System tab for virtual machine hosts
  - System tab for virtual machine guests
  - Virtual machine controls - Launching the remote console
  - Virtual machine controls - Starting or resuming virtual machine guests
  - Virtual machine controls - Resetting or restarting virtual machine guests
  - Virtual machine controls - Suspending virtual machine guests
  - Virtual machine controls - Shutting down or stopping virtual machine guests
  - Virtual machine host performance
  - Virtual machine guest performance
  - System tab for clusters
    - Health Status
    - Identification
    - Product Description
  - System tab for a complex
    - Health Status
    - Product Description
    - Summary of Components
      - For a Complex Participating in iCOD:
      - For a Complex Not Participating in iCOD:
  - System tab for partitions
    - Identification
    - Product Description
    - Summary of Components
    - Associations
  - System tab for a storage host
    - Product Description
    - Host Bus Adapters
      - Properties
      - Ports
    - LUNs
  - System tab for a storage switch
    - Product Description
    - Ports
    - Status Summary
  - System tab for a storage array
    - Product Description
    - Ports
      - Port Details
    - Storage Volumes
    - Capacity Information
  - System tab for a tape library
    - Product Description
    - Ports
    - Media Access Devices
    - Changer Devices
  - Port types
  - Tools & Links tab
    - System Management Pages
    - System Web Application Pages
    - HP Systems Insight Manager Pages
    - Storage Essentials Pages
  - Essentials tab
- Version Control
  - About the Version Control Agent
    - Additional resources
  - About the Version Control Repository Manager
    - Additional resources
  - About integration
  - About software repositories
  - About multiple system management
  - Accessing the Version Control Agent
    - Logging in to the VCA
  - Accessing the Version Control Repository Manager
    - Accessing VCRM from HP SIM
    - Accessing VCRM In-Place
  - Version Control status icons
    - Version Control status
  - Installing Software and Firmware
    - Firmware deployment to switches
  - Installing ROM firmware updates
  - Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install
- Virtual Machine Management Pack
  - Deploying the VMM agent
  - Registering VMM
  - Unregistering VMM
  - Upgrading VMM
  - VM status types
- WBEM-based tools
  - Property Pages
  - System Fault Management overview
  - WBEM providers overview
- Available MSA tools
13 Partner applications
- HP Integrity Essentials plug-ins
- HP ProLiant Essentials plug-ins
- HP Storage Essentials plug-ins
- HP Infrastructure Resource Management plug-ins
- HP Integrity Essentials overview
- HP ProLiant Essentials applications
- HP Storage Essentials overview
- Storage device managers
- HP Service Essentials Remote Support Pack
14 Reporting
- HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack reporting
- System Information Reporting
- Snapshot comparison
- System reporting
- Snapshot comparison reporting
- PMP reporting options
15 Administering systems and events
- Events
- Examples of event tasks
- Status polling
  - Software status polling
  - Hardware status polling
- WMI Mapper Proxy
- Protocols
- Data collection
- System properties
- Version Control Repository
- PMP administrative options
- Managing SSH keys
- Backing up and restoring the database
  - HP-UX and Linux
    - Saving data files using PostgreSQL utilities
    - Restoring data files for PostgreSQL
  - Windows
- Configuring SSH bypass properties
- Audit log
- Properties for globalsettings.props file
16 Troubleshooting
- Authentication
- Automatic event handling
- Blade
- Browser
- Certificates
- CLI
- CIMOM
- Cluster
- Collection
- Configure or Repair Agents
- Custom tools
- Database
- Discovery
- Event/SNMP trap
- Firmware upgrade
- Generic
- HP SIM
- HTTP event
- Identification
- Integrated Lights-Out (iLO)
- Internet Explorer
- Installation
- IP address
- Menu
- OpenSSH
- Operating system
- Paging notification
- Passwords
- Ping
- Printing
- Property pages
- Protocol
- Remote Support Essentials Pack
- Replicate Agent Settings
- Response
- Search
- Security
- Serviceguard Manager
- Sign in
- SMI-S providers
- SNMP Agent
- Software status
- Storage system
- Switch
- System
- System Page
- System properties
- Task
- Tools
- VCRM
- Virtual machine
- Virtual Machine Management Pack
- WBEM Indications
  - On the managed system:
  - On HP SIM:
  - Ensure that indications are generated by the managed system
- Windows NT event log
- WMIMapper
17 Reference information
- Predefined views
- Database tables
- Windows event log
  - Windows NT/2000 events
  - Windows NT/2000 event log error messages
- Service and support
  - Service and support
glossary
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