HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 4)

Configuring Configure or Repair Agents through a discovery task.............................................42
Viewing discovery task results..............................................................................................42
Discovery filters.................................................................................................................42
Discovery of Gen8 servers..................................................................................................43
7 Manage Communications......................................................................44
Configuring the managed system software using the Configure or Repair Agents feature from the
CMS................................................................................................................................45
Sending test traps and indications........................................................................................45
8 Automatic event handling......................................................................46
Example automatic event handling tasks...............................................................................47
AEH - ForwardAsTrap in IPv6 ..............................................................................................47
9 Users and Authorizations.......................................................................49
Users................................................................................................................................49
User groups..................................................................................................................49
Toolboxes.........................................................................................................................49
10 Managed environment.........................................................................50
III HP SIM basic features...............................................................................51
11 Basic and advanced searches...............................................................52
Basic search......................................................................................................................52
Advanced search...............................................................................................................52
Hierarchical displays.....................................................................................................52
Save as.......................................................................................................................53
View...........................................................................................................................53
Searching for tools.............................................................................................................53
12 Monitoring systems..............................................................................54
Viewing system collections...................................................................................................54
Pages displaying system status........................................................................................54
Viewing health status from the table or icon view...............................................................55
Viewing health status in the tree view...............................................................................55
System status types........................................................................................................55
Software status types.....................................................................................................56
WBEM operational status types.......................................................................................57
Monitoring clusters.............................................................................................................57
System properties...............................................................................................................58
Disabling NIC on ESXi host.................................................................................................59
Example of setting system properties.....................................................................................60
Setting customer company and contact information individually...........................................60
Example of setting system properties for multiple systems.........................................................60
13 Event management..............................................................................61
Event management configuration.........................................................................................61
Example - Creating a paging task based on e-mail notification................................................62
Examples of e-mail pages...................................................................................................63
Example of a standard e-mail page.................................................................................63
Example of a Pager/SMS page......................................................................................64
Example of an HTML page.............................................................................................64
Example - Creating a task to send an e-mail when a system reaches a critical state.....................65
Example - Creating a task to delete all cleared events.............................................................66
14 Reporting in HP SIM............................................................................68
Standard reports................................................................................................................68
New Reports................................................................................................................68
Managing reports.........................................................................................................68
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