HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 17)

generated and e-mailed on a scheduled basis. The type of data collected depends on the
management software (SNMP agents or WBEM/WMI providers) that is installed.
Automatic event handling
Automatic event handling enables you to define an action that HP SIM performs when an event is
received. These actions can include running a program or script, forwarding the event to another
management system, clearing the event, or notifying a user through e-mail or pager.
Tools and tasks
Tools are actions you perform on the managed systems from within HP SIM's GUI or CLI. Many
tools ship with HP SIM, but you can also add your own custom tools. Tasks are instances of running
tools. To create a task, select
target systems (systems or events that the task will work on) and then
select the tool from the HP SIM menu. Tasks can be run immediately or scheduled, and you can
view task results by selecting Tasks & Logs
→View Task Results .
Tools can be run from the HP SIM menus and can be added to a Quick Launch list that is available
from many pages within HP SIM.
Collections
Collections are groups of systems and events that can be used for viewing information, or as a
way to specify the targets for a tool. They can be created through the Customize link in the System
and Event Collections panel either by selecting specific systems to be included, or by specifying
attributes to be matched. Once created, they are displayed in the System and Event Collections
panel for quick access. Shared collections can be seen by everyone logging into HP SIM. Private
collections can only be seen by the user who created them.
You can bind event collections and system collections together and use them either separately or
together. For example, after you define a collection of Security Events, you can easy look at those
events on any system collection, such as Security Events on All Servers or Security Events on My
FinancialServers.
Conversely, you can choose a system collection, and view any set of events on those systems. For
example, you can easily select My FinancialServers and look at All Events, Sign-in Events, Security
Events, or any other event collection as it applies to that collection of systems.
Users and Authorizations
HP SIM enables effective delegation of management responsibilities by giving system administrators
granular control over which users can perform specific management operations on specific systems.
Nested user groups
A nested user group is a concept on Windows Active Directory. A user/user group might belong
to one or many user groups. Therefore, it makes a hierarchical relationship between users and
user groups.
For Windows to support nested group security; CMS, user and user groups must exist in Active
Directory. Members of user groups (user and user group) inherit the behavior (authentication and
authorization privilege) from its parent groups. So, if a user is a member of two different user
groups with different privileges and one group is a member of another user group, then the user
will inherit rights as a result of the union of all the three user groups.
If a user is a member of more than one user group, then the IP login restrictions of all the user
groups are combined and applied to the user. To override IP login restrictions of all user groups
with the user's current group IP login restrictions, select Override IP Login Inclusion/Exclusion Range
from the user's authorizations page.
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