HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
I Introduction...............................................................................................12
1 About this document.............................................................................13
User Guide.......................................................................................................................13
HP SIM User Guide layout..................................................................................................13
2 Product overview..................................................................................14
HP SIM features.................................................................................................................14
Basic concepts..................................................................................................................14
Discovery and identification............................................................................................14
Inventory......................................................................................................................15
Status info....................................................................................................................15
Reports........................................................................................................................15
Automatic event handling...............................................................................................15
Tools and tasks.............................................................................................................16
Collections...................................................................................................................16
Users and Authorizations................................................................................................16
Nested user groups...................................................................................................16
Signing in and using the graphical user interface...................................................................16
Security Alerts in Internet Explorer and Firefox...................................................................17
Automatically signing in.................................................................................................17
Configuring the CMS................................................................................................17
Configuring the browser............................................................................................18
Behavior.................................................................................................................18
Guided tour of the HP SIM user interface..........................................................................19
Customizing views.........................................................................................................20
II Setting up HP SIM.....................................................................................21
3 Setting up managed systems..................................................................22
Configure or Repair Agents.................................................................................................22
Setting up Windows servers to be managed by HP SIM..........................................................22
Setting up HP-UX servers to be managed by HP SIM...............................................................29
Manually setting up an HP-UX managed system................................................................30
Configuring SNMP to send traps to the CMS................................................................30
Configuring SSH access............................................................................................30
Subscribing to WBEM indications/events:...................................................................30
Setting up Linux servers to be managed by HP SIM................................................................31
Configuring agents remotely using Configure or Repair Agents:...........................................31
Manually setting up Linux managed systems.....................................................................31
Installing and configuring SSH...................................................................................32
Configuring a Linux system to send SNMP traps............................................................32
4 Credentials..........................................................................................34
Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password pairs...........................34
5 WMI Mapper Proxy .............................................................................36
6 Discovery............................................................................................37
Recommended discovery tasks.............................................................................................37
Options on the Discovery page............................................................................................38
Discovery credentials..........................................................................................................39
Configuring Configure or Repair Agents through a discovery task.............................................39
Viewing discovery task results..............................................................................................39
Discovery filters.................................................................................................................39
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