HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 4)

Discovery of Gen8 servers..................................................................................................40
7 Manage Communications......................................................................41
Configuring the managed system software using the Configure or Repair Agents feature from the
CMS................................................................................................................................41
Sending test traps and indications........................................................................................42
8 Automatic event handling......................................................................43
Example automatic event handling tasks...............................................................................44
9 Users and Authorizations.......................................................................45
Users................................................................................................................................45
User groups..................................................................................................................45
Toolboxes.........................................................................................................................45
10 Managed environment.........................................................................46
III HP SIM basic features...............................................................................47
11 Basic and advanced searches...............................................................48
Basic search......................................................................................................................48
Advanced search...............................................................................................................48
Hierarchical displays.....................................................................................................48
Save as.......................................................................................................................48
View...........................................................................................................................49
Searching for tools.............................................................................................................49
12 Monitoring systems..............................................................................50
Viewing system collections...................................................................................................50
Pages displaying system status........................................................................................50
Viewing health status from the table or icon view...............................................................51
Viewing health status in the tree view...............................................................................51
System status types........................................................................................................51
Software status types.....................................................................................................52
WBEM operational status types.......................................................................................53
Monitoring clusters.............................................................................................................53
System properties...............................................................................................................54
Example of setting system properties.....................................................................................55
Setting customer company and contact information individually...........................................55
Example of setting system properties for multiple systems.........................................................55
13 Event management..............................................................................56
Event management configuration.........................................................................................56
Example - Creating a paging task based on e-mail notification................................................57
Examples of e-mail pages...................................................................................................58
Example of a standard e-mail page.................................................................................58
Example of a Pager/SMS page......................................................................................59
Example of an HTML page.............................................................................................59
Example - Creating a task to send an e-mail when a system reaches a critical state.....................60
Example - Creating a task to delete all cleared events.............................................................61
14 Reporting in HP SIM............................................................................63
Standard reports................................................................................................................63
New Reports................................................................................................................63
Managing reports.........................................................................................................63
Snapshot Comparison....................................................................................................64
Enhanced Reports.........................................................................................................64
Predefined reports....................................................................................................65
Run Enhanced reports...............................................................................................65
New Enhanced reports.............................................................................................66
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