Tools and tasks, Collections, Users and authorizations – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual
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Tools and tasks
Tools are actions you perform on the managed systems from within Systems Insight Manager's GUI or CLI.
Many tools ship with Systems Insight Manager, but you can also add your own custom tools. Tasks are
instances of running tools. To create a task, select
(systems or events that the task will work
on) and then select the tool from the Systems Insight Manager menu. Tasks can be run immediately or
scheduled, and you can view task results by selecting Tools
→View Task Results.
Tools can be run from the Systems Insight Manager menus and can be added to a Quick Launch list that is
available from many pages within Systems Insight Manager.
Collections
Collections are groups of systems and events that can be used for viewing information, or as a way to specify
the targets for a tool. They can be created through the Customize link in the System and Event Collections
panel either by selecting specific systems to be included, or by specifying attributes to be matched. Once
created, they are displayed in the System and Event Collections panel for quick access. Shared collections
can be seen by everyone logging into Systems Insight Manager. Private collections can only be seen by the
user who created them.
You can bind event collections and system collections together and use them either separately or together.
For example, after you define a collection of Security Events, you can easy look at those events on any
system collection, such as Security Events on All Servers or Security Events on My FinancialServers.
Conversely, you can choose a system collection, and view any set of events on those systems. For example,
you can easily select My FinancialServers and look at All Events, Sign-in Events, Security Events, or any other
event collection as it applies to that collection of systems.
Users and Authorizations
Systems Insight Manager enables effective delegation of management responsibilities by giving system
administrators granular control over which users can perform specific management operations on specific
systems.
Signing in and using the graphical user interface
Systems Insight Manager provides a browser-based
. Supported browsers include:
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For Windows:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
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Firefox 3.0.10 or later
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For HP-UX:
Firefox 3.0.10 or later
To download, go to
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For Linux:
Firefox 3.0.10 or later
NOTE:
Browser settings:
For all Windows Internet Explorer browsers, you must have the SSL 3.0 or Transport Layer Security
(TLS) 1.0 browser security options enabled for Systems Insight Manager to work properly.
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To use automatic sign-in with Firefox, you must configure Firefox with a list of sites with automatic sign-in.
For more information, see
Initial setup section of the Systems Insight Manager online help.
Security Alerts in Internet Explorer and Firefox
Because the Systems Insight Manager web server uses a self-signed SSL certificate (unless otherwise
configured), you will encounter a browser warning when browsing to the CMS. Firefox warns of an
Untrusted
Connection. Internet Explorer warns of a Certificate Error. Both browsers let you continue, but you can take
measures to avoid repeatedly encountering those warnings. This applies to Systems Insight Manager, SMH,
Integrated Lights-Out (iLO), Onboard Administrator, and all web servers you browse to.
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