HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
1 Legal notices............................................................................................25
Warranty.............................................................................................................................................25
Restricted rights legend..........................................................................................................................25
Copyright notice...................................................................................................................................25
Trademark notices.................................................................................................................................25
Release history.....................................................................................................................................25
2 Introduction.............................................................................................27
Online help..........................................................................................................................................27
HP SIM help categories.........................................................................................................................27
3 Product overview......................................................................................29
Additional resources..............................................................................................................................29
Features...............................................................................................................................................29
HP SIM management.......................................................................................................................29
Security..........................................................................................................................................30
Installation......................................................................................................................................30
Discovery........................................................................................................................................30
Custom tools...................................................................................................................................30
Reporting........................................................................................................................................30
Partner applications.........................................................................................................................30
What's new?........................................................................................................................................34
Collections......................................................................................................................................34
Events............................................................................................................................................34
Task Wizard...................................................................................................................................34
Directory services.............................................................................................................................34
Security..........................................................................................................................................34
Command Line Interface...................................................................................................................34
Discovery........................................................................................................................................34
Protocols.........................................................................................................................................35
Reporting........................................................................................................................................35
Additional new features....................................................................................................................35
Partner applications.........................................................................................................................35
Product architecture...............................................................................................................................36
Central management server...............................................................................................................36
Managed systems............................................................................................................................36
System collections ......................................................................................................................36
Web-browser clients.........................................................................................................................36
Assistance............................................................................................................................................37
Additional resources.........................................................................................................................37
Technical support.............................................................................................................................37
Related topics..................................................................................................................................38
System requirements..............................................................................................................................38
4 Getting started.........................................................................................41
Product registration...............................................................................................................................41
Signing in............................................................................................................................................42
Signing in to the GUI.......................................................................................................................42
Signing in using SSL...................................................................................................................43
Logging in to the CLI........................................................................................................................43
Logging in directly on the CMS....................................................................................................44
Using an SSH client remotely........................................................................................................44
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