Systems Insight Manager 7.2 User Guide

HP Part Number: 601823-007Published: March 2013Edition: Edition 2

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ContentsI Introduction...............................................................................................13

1 About this document.............................................................................14User Guide.......................................................................................................................14HP SIM User Guide layout..................................................................................................14

2 Product overview..................................................................................15HP SIM features.................................................................................................................15Basic concepts..................................................................................................................16

Discovery and identification............................................................................................16Inventory......................................................................................................................16Status info....................................................................................................................16Reports........................................................................................................................16Automatic event handling...............................................................................................17Tools and tasks.............................................................................................................17Collections...................................................................................................................17Users and Authorizations................................................................................................17

Nested user groups...................................................................................................17Signing in and using the graphical user interface...................................................................18

User/System credentials.................................................................................................18Security Alerts in Internet Explorer and Firefox...................................................................18Automatically signing in.................................................................................................18

Configuring the CMS................................................................................................19Configuring the browser............................................................................................19Behavior.................................................................................................................20

Guided tour of the HP SIM user interface..........................................................................20Customizing views.........................................................................................................21

II Setting up HP SIM.....................................................................................223 Setting up managed systems..................................................................23

Configure or Repair Agents.................................................................................................23Setting up Windows servers to be managed by HP SIM..........................................................23Setting up HP-UX servers to be managed by HP SIM...............................................................30

Manually setting up an HP-UX managed system................................................................31Configuring SNMP to send traps to the CMS................................................................31Configuring SSH access............................................................................................31Subscribing to WBEM indications/events:...................................................................31

Setting up Linux servers to be managed by HP SIM................................................................32Configuring agents remotely using Configure or Repair Agents:...........................................32Manually setting up Linux managed systems.....................................................................32

Installing and configuring SSH...................................................................................33Configuring a Linux system to send SNMP traps............................................................33

4 Credentials..........................................................................................35Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password pairs...........................35

5 WMI Mapper Proxy .............................................................................376 Discovery............................................................................................38

Recommended discovery tasks.............................................................................................38Options on the Discovery page............................................................................................39Discovery credentials..........................................................................................................40Configuring Configure or Repair Agents through a discovery task.............................................40Viewing discovery task results..............................................................................................40

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Discovery filters.................................................................................................................40Discovery of Gen8 servers..................................................................................................41

7 Manage Communications......................................................................42Configuring the managed system software using the Configure or Repair Agents feature from theCMS................................................................................................................................42Sending test traps and indications........................................................................................43

8 Automatic event handling......................................................................44Example automatic event handling tasks...............................................................................45

9 Users and Authorizations.......................................................................46Users................................................................................................................................46

User groups..................................................................................................................46Toolboxes.........................................................................................................................46

10 Managed environment.........................................................................47III HP SIM basic features...............................................................................48

11 Basic and advanced searches...............................................................49Basic search......................................................................................................................49Advanced search...............................................................................................................49

Hierarchical displays.....................................................................................................49Save as.......................................................................................................................49View...........................................................................................................................50

Searching for tools.............................................................................................................5012 Monitoring systems..............................................................................51

Viewing system collections...................................................................................................51Pages displaying system status........................................................................................51Viewing health status from the table or icon view.