HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
I Introduction...............................................................................................13
1 About this document.............................................................................14
User Guide.......................................................................................................................14
HP SIM User Guide layout..................................................................................................14
2 Product overview..................................................................................15
HP SIM features.................................................................................................................15
Basic concepts..................................................................................................................16
Discovery and identification............................................................................................16
Inventory......................................................................................................................16
Status info....................................................................................................................16
Reports........................................................................................................................16
Automatic event handling...............................................................................................17
Tools and tasks.............................................................................................................17
Collections...................................................................................................................17
Users and Authorizations................................................................................................17
Nested user groups...................................................................................................17
Signing in and using the graphical user interface...................................................................18
User/System credentials.................................................................................................18
Security Alerts in Internet Explorer and Firefox...................................................................18
Automatically signing in.................................................................................................18
Configuring the CMS................................................................................................19
Configuring the browser............................................................................................19
Behavior.................................................................................................................20
Guided tour of the HP SIM user interface..........................................................................20
Customizing views.........................................................................................................21
II Setting up HP SIM.....................................................................................22
3 Setting up managed systems..................................................................23
Configure or Repair Agents.................................................................................................23
Setting up Windows servers to be managed by HP SIM..........................................................23
Setting up HP-UX servers to be managed by HP SIM...............................................................30
Manually setting up an HP-UX managed system................................................................31
Configuring SNMP to send traps to the CMS................................................................31
Configuring SSH access............................................................................................31
Subscribing to WBEM indications/events:...................................................................31
Setting up Linux servers to be managed by HP SIM................................................................32
Configuring agents remotely using Configure or Repair Agents:...........................................32
Manually setting up Linux managed systems.....................................................................32
Installing and configuring SSH...................................................................................33
Configuring a Linux system to send SNMP traps............................................................33
4 Credentials..........................................................................................35
Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password pairs...........................35
5 WMI Mapper Proxy .............................................................................37
6 Discovery............................................................................................38
Recommended discovery tasks.............................................................................................38
Options on the Discovery page............................................................................................39
Discovery credentials..........................................................................................................40
Configuring Configure or Repair Agents through a discovery task.............................................40
Viewing discovery task results..............................................................................................40
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