HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
I Introduction...............................................................................................14
1 About this document.............................................................................15
User Guide.......................................................................................................................15
Systems Insight Manager User Guide layout..........................................................................15
2 Product overview..................................................................................16
Systems Insight Manager features.........................................................................................16
Basic concepts..................................................................................................................16
Discovery and identification............................................................................................16
Inventory......................................................................................................................17
Status info....................................................................................................................17
Reports........................................................................................................................17
Automatic event handling...............................................................................................17
Tools and tasks.............................................................................................................17
Collections...................................................................................................................18
Users and Authorizations................................................................................................18
Signing in and using the graphical user interface...................................................................18
Security Alerts in Internet Explorer and Firefox...................................................................18
Automatically signing in.................................................................................................19
Configuring the CMS................................................................................................19
Configuring the browser............................................................................................20
Behavior.................................................................................................................20
Guided tour of the Systems Insight Manager user interface.................................................21
Customizing views.........................................................................................................22
II Setting up Systems Insight Manager............................................................23
3 Setting up managed systems..................................................................24
Setting up Windows servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager..................................24
Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on a Systems Insight Manager Windows systems for the
first time.......................................................................................................................24
Requirements...........................................................................................................24
Installing the ProLiant Support Pack.............................................................................24
Setting up HP-UX servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager......................................27
Manually setting up an HP-UX managed system................................................................28
Configuring SNMP to send traps to the CMS................................................................28
Configuring SSH access............................................................................................28
Subscribing to WBEM indications/events:...................................................................28
Setting up Linux servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager........................................29
Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time..................................29
Configuring agents remotely using Configure or Repair Agents:...........................................29
Manually setting up Linux managed systems.....................................................................29
Installing and configuring SSH...................................................................................30
Configuring a Linux system to send SNMP traps............................................................30
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