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15 administering systems and events, Administering, Systems and events – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

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15 Administering systems and events

Users with

full configuration rights

can administer HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). Administration of

HP SIM involves the following tasks:

Configuring basic settings using the First Time Wizard

Configuring and running

automatic

and

manual discovery

Identifying systems

Managing hosts and template files

Managing system types by creating, editing, and deleting SNMP and

Desktop Management Interface

(DMI)

rules

Setting global and single system protocol settings

Configuring and running status polling tasks

Configure automatic event handling by creating and editing tasks, deleting events, and configuring
e-mail, modem, event filter, SNMP trap, and status change event settings

Configuring cluster and system settings

Running data collection tasks

Customizing the Home page options

Selecting and maintaining default HP Version Control Repository Manager for advanced searches and
tasks like installing software and firmware

Managing toolboxes

Managing authorizations

Managing users

Monitoring the Audit Log

Creating, editing, exporting, importing, and synchronizing server certificates

Creating, deleting, exporting, and importing trusted system certificates

Setting up managed systems

Setting system properties for multiple systems

Suspending or resuming system monitoring for multiple systems

Specifying the HP Version Control Repository Manager

Running HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP) administrative tools from HP SIM

Backing up and restoring the HP SIM database on Windows, HP-UX, and Linux systems

Configuring security settings

Modifying identification through System Type Manager

Managing system keys

NOTE:

You must be a user with

full configuration rights

on a system to access the Options menu and

perform HP SIM administration tasks.

Related procedures

Viewing the Audit Log

Configuring the audit log file

Creating new users

Creating new toolboxes

Creating new user groups

Creating new authorizations

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