15 administering systems and events, Administering, Systems and events – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

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15 Administering systems and events

Users with

full configuration rights

can administer HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). Administration of

HP SIM involves the following tasks:
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Configuring basic settings using the First Time Wizard

•

Configuring and running

automatic

and

manual discovery

•

Identifying systems

•

Managing hosts and template files

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Managing system types by creating, editing, and deleting SNMP and

Desktop Management Interface

(DMI)

rules

•

Setting global and single system protocol settings

•

Configuring and running status polling tasks

•

Configure automatic event handling by creating and editing tasks, deleting events, and configuring
e-mail, modem, event filter, SNMP trap, and status change event settings

•

Configuring cluster and system settings

•

Running data collection tasks

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Customizing the Home page options

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Selecting and maintaining default HP Version Control Repository Manager for advanced searches and
tasks like installing software and firmware

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Managing toolboxes

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Managing authorizations

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Managing users

•

Monitoring the Audit Log

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Creating, editing, exporting, importing, and synchronizing server certificates

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Creating, deleting, exporting, and importing trusted system certificates

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Setting up managed systems

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Setting system properties for multiple systems

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Suspending or resuming system monitoring for multiple systems

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Specifying the HP Version Control Repository Manager

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Running HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP) administrative tools from HP SIM

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Backing up and restoring the HP SIM database on Windows, HP-UX, and Linux systems

•

Configuring security settings

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Modifying identification through System Type Manager

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Managing system keys

NOTE:

You must be a user with

full configuration rights

on a system to access the Options menu and

perform HP SIM administration tasks.

Related procedures

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Viewing the Audit Log

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Configuring the audit log file

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Creating new users

•

Creating new toolboxes

•

Creating new user groups

•

Creating new authorizations

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