HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 4)

Discovery filters.................................................................................................................40
Discovery of Gen8 servers..................................................................................................41
7 Manage Communications......................................................................42
Configuring the managed system software using the Configure or Repair Agents feature from the
CMS................................................................................................................................42
Sending test traps and indications........................................................................................43
8 Automatic event handling......................................................................44
Example automatic event handling tasks...............................................................................45
9 Users and Authorizations.......................................................................46
Users................................................................................................................................46
User groups..................................................................................................................46
Toolboxes.........................................................................................................................46
10 Managed environment.........................................................................47
III HP SIM basic features...............................................................................48
11 Basic and advanced searches...............................................................49
Basic search......................................................................................................................49
Advanced search...............................................................................................................49
Hierarchical displays.....................................................................................................49
Save as.......................................................................................................................49
View...........................................................................................................................50
Searching for tools.............................................................................................................50
12 Monitoring systems..............................................................................51
Viewing system collections...................................................................................................51
Pages displaying system status........................................................................................51
Viewing health status from the table or icon view...............................................................52
Viewing health status in the tree view...............................................................................52
System status types........................................................................................................52
Software status types.....................................................................................................53
WBEM operational status types.......................................................................................54
Monitoring clusters.............................................................................................................54
System properties...............................................................................................................55
Example of setting system properties.....................................................................................56
Setting customer company and contact information individually...........................................56
Example of setting system properties for multiple systems.........................................................56
13 Event management..............................................................................57
Event management configuration.........................................................................................57
Example - Creating a paging task based on e-mail notification................................................58
Examples of e-mail pages...................................................................................................59
Example of a standard e-mail page.................................................................................59
Example of a Pager/SMS page......................................................................................60
Example of an HTML page.............................................................................................60
Example - Creating a task to send an e-mail when a system reaches a critical state.....................61
Example - Creating a task to delete all cleared events.............................................................62
14 Reporting in HP SIM............................................................................64
Standard reports................................................................................................................64
New Reports................................................................................................................64
Managing reports.........................................................................................................64
Snapshot Comparison....................................................................................................65
Enhanced Reports.........................................................................................................65
Predefined reports....................................................................................................66
Run Enhanced reports...............................................................................................66
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