HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 4)

Viewing discovery task results..............................................................................................41
Discovery filters.................................................................................................................41
Discovery of Gen8 servers..................................................................................................42
7 Manage Communications......................................................................43
Configuring the managed system software using the Configure or Repair Agents feature from the
CMS................................................................................................................................43
Sending test traps and indications........................................................................................44
8 Automatic event handling......................................................................45
Example automatic event handling tasks...............................................................................46
AEH - ForwardAsTrap in IPv6 ..............................................................................................46
9 Users and Authorizations.......................................................................48
Users................................................................................................................................48
User groups..................................................................................................................48
Toolboxes.........................................................................................................................48
10 Managed environment.........................................................................49
III HP SIM basic features...............................................................................50
11 Basic and advanced searches...............................................................51
Basic search......................................................................................................................51
Advanced search...............................................................................................................51
Hierarchical displays.....................................................................................................51
Save as.......................................................................................................................52
View...........................................................................................................................52
Searching for tools.............................................................................................................52
12 Monitoring systems..............................................................................53
Viewing system collections...................................................................................................53
Pages displaying system status........................................................................................53
Viewing health status from the table or icon view...............................................................54
Viewing health status in the tree view...............................................................................54
System status types........................................................................................................54
Software status types.....................................................................................................55
WBEM operational status types.......................................................................................56
Monitoring clusters.............................................................................................................56
System properties...............................................................................................................57
Disabling NIC on ESXi host.................................................................................................58
Example of setting system properties.....................................................................................59
Setting customer company and contact information individually...........................................59
Example of setting system properties for multiple systems.........................................................59
13 Event management..............................................................................60
Event management configuration.........................................................................................60
Example - Creating a paging task based on e-mail notification................................................61
Examples of e-mail pages...................................................................................................62
Example of a standard e-mail page.................................................................................62
Example of a Pager/SMS page......................................................................................63
Example of an HTML page.............................................................................................63
Example - Creating a task to send an e-mail when a system reaches a critical state.....................64
Example - Creating a task to delete all cleared events.............................................................65
14 Reporting in HP SIM............................................................................67
Standard reports................................................................................................................67
New Reports................................................................................................................67
Managing reports.........................................................................................................67
Snapshot Comparison....................................................................................................68
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