HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
I Introduction...............................................................................................11
1 About this document .............................................................................12
User Guide.....................................................................................................................................12
Systems Insight Manager User Guide layout........................................................................................12
2 Product overview ..................................................................................13
What's new in Systems Insight Manager 6.0.......................................................................................13
Systems Insight Manager features.......................................................................................................13
Basic concepts................................................................................................................................14
Discovery and identification.........................................................................................................14
Inventory...................................................................................................................................14
Status info.................................................................................................................................14
Reports......................................................................................................................................14
Automatic event handling............................................................................................................14
Tools and tasks...........................................................................................................................15
Collections.................................................................................................................................15
Users and Authorizations.............................................................................................................15
Signing in and using the graphical user interface.................................................................................15
Security Alerts in Internet Explorer and Firefox................................................................................15
Automatically signing in..............................................................................................................16
Configuring the CMS.............................................................................................................16
Configuring the browser.........................................................................................................16
Behavior..............................................................................................................................17
Guided tour of the Systems Insight Manager user interface...............................................................18
Customizing views......................................................................................................................19
II Setting up Systems Insight Manager............................................................20
3 Setting up managed systems ..................................................................21
Setting up Windows servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager................................................21
Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on a Systems Insight Manager Windows systems for the first time....21
Requirements........................................................................................................................21
Installing the ProLiant Support Pack..........................................................................................21
Setting up HP-UX servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager....................................................23
Manually setting up an HP-UX managed system..............................................................................24
Configuring SNMP to send traps to the CMS.............................................................................24
Configuring SSH access.........................................................................................................25
Subscribing to WBEM indications/events:................................................................................25
Setting up Linux servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager......................................................26
Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time................................................26
Configuring agents remotely using Configure or Repair Agents:........................................................26
Manually setting up Linux managed systems...................................................................................26
Installing and configuring SSH................................................................................................26
Configuring a Linux system to send SNMP traps.........................................................................26
4 Credentials ..........................................................................................28
Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password pairs.........................................28
5 WMI Mapper Proxy .............................................................................30
6 Discovery ............................................................................................31
Recommended discovery tasks...........................................................................................................31
Options on the Discovery page.........................................................................................................32
Discovery credentials........................................................................................................................32
Configuring Configure or Repair Agents through a discovery task..........................................................32
Viewing discovery task results............................................................................................................32
Discovery filters...............................................................................................................................33
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