Document Outline

• Systems Insight Manager 7.0 User Guide
• Table of Contents
• Part I Introduction
  • 1 About this document
    • User Guide
    • HP SIM User Guide layout
  • 2 Product overview
    • HP SIM features
    • Basic concepts
      • Discovery and identification
      • Inventory
      • Status info
      • Reports
      • Automatic event handling
      • Tools and tasks
      • Collections
      • Users and Authorizations
    • Signing in and using the graphical user interface
      • Security Alerts in Internet Explorer and Firefox
      • Automatically signing in
        • Configuring the CMS
        • Configuring the browser
        • Behavior
      • Guided tour of the HP SIM user interface
      • Customizing views
• Part II Setting up HP SIM
  • 3 Setting up managed systems
    • Configure or Repair Agents
    • Setting up Windows servers to be managed by HP SIM
    • Setting up HP-UX servers to be managed by HP SIM
      • Manually setting up an HP-UX managed system
        • Configuring SNMP to send traps to the CMS
        • Configuring SSH access
        • Subscribing to WBEM indications/events:
    • Setting up Linux servers to be managed by HP SIM
      • Configuring agents remotely using Configure or Repair Agents:
      • Manually setting up Linux managed systems
        • Installing and configuring SSH
        • Configuring a Linux system to send SNMP traps
  • 4 Credentials
    • Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password pairs
  • 5 WMI Mapper Proxy
  • 6 Discovery
    • Recommended discovery tasks
    • Options on the Discovery page
    • Discovery credentials
    • Configuring Configure or Repair Agents through a discovery task
    • Viewing discovery task results
    • Discovery filters
    • Discovering ESXi 5.0 and above with lockdown enabled in HP SIM 7.0
    • Discovery of Gen8 servers
  • 7 Manage Communications
    • Configuring the managed system software using the Configure or Repair Agents feature from the CMS
    • Sending test traps and indications
  • 8 Automatic event handling
    • Example automatic event handling tasks
  • 9 Users and Authorizations
    • Users
      • User groups
    • Toolboxes
  • 10 Managed environment
• Part III HP SIM basic features
  • 11 Basic and advanced searches
    • Basic search
    • Advanced search
      • Hierarchical displays
      • Save as
      • View
    • Searching for tools
  • 12 Monitoring systems
    • Viewing system collections
      • Pages displaying system status
      • Viewing health status from the table or icon view
      • Viewing health status in the tree view
      • System status types
      • Software status types
      • WBEM operational status types
    • Monitoring clusters
    • System properties
    • Example of setting system properties
      • Setting customer company and contact information individually
    • Example of setting system properties for multiple systems
  • 13 Event management
    • Event management configuration
    • Example - Creating a paging task based on e-mail notification
    • Examples of e-mail pages
      • Example of a standard e-mail page
      • Example of a Pager/SMS page
      • Example of an HTML page
    • Example - Creating a task to send an e-mail when a system reaches a critical state
    • Example - Creating a task to delete all cleared events
  • 14 Reporting in HP SIM
    • Standard reports
      • New Reports
      • Managing reports
      • Snapshot Comparison
      • Enhanced Reports
        • Predefined reports
        • Run Enhanced reports
        • New Enhanced reports
        • Editing Enhanced reports
        • E-mailing reports
        • Deleting reports
  • 15 HP SIM tools
    • Target selection
    • Scheduling tools
    • Managing with tasks
    • Viewing results
    • Example - Device ping
• Part IV HP SIM advanced features
  • 16 Collections in HP SIM
    • Collections in HP SIM
      • Types of collections
      • Other customization features
  • 17 HP SIM custom tools
    • General concepts
      • Tool types
      • Environment variables for custom tools
      • Custom tool menu placement
      • Custom tool URL format
    • Creating custom tools through the GUI
      • New
      • Edit
      • View tool definition
      • Run Now/Schedule
      • Delete
    • Creating custom tools through the HP SIM CLI
      • Creating a custom SSA tool
      • Example Web launch tool
      • Example MSA tool
      • Example Enabling Remote Desktop tool
      • Adding a TDEF to HP SIM
      • Removing a TDEF from HP SIM
      • Modifying a TDEF
  • 18 Federated Search
    • Federated CMS Configuration
  • 19 CMS reconfigure tools
    • Operational Commands, Options and Parameters
    • Reconfiguring the CMS password
      • Warnings
      • Dependencies
    • Reconfiguring the CMS host and IP attributes
      • Warning
      • Dependencies
    • Reconfiguring the CMS database credentials
      • Warning
      • Dependencies
    • Reconfiguring the CMS to use a different database
      • Warning
      • Dependencies
  • 20 Understanding HP SIM security
    • Securing communication
      • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
      • Secure Shell (SSH)
      • Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
      • Secure Task Execution (STE) and Single Sign-On (SSO)
      • Distributed Task Facility (DTF)
      • WBEM
      • LDAP
      • RMI
    • Credentials management
      • SSL certificates
        • HP SIM main certificate
        • HP SIM Single Sigon-On (SSO) certificate
        • Key Length
        • Using the main certificate for SSO
        • WBEM certificate
        • Upgrading to HP SIM 7.0
      • Certificate expiration and Certificate Revocation Check (CLR Check)
      • Certificate sharing
      • SSH keys
      • Passwords
    • Browser
      • SSL
      • Cookies
      • Passwords
      • Password warnings
      • Browser session
      • Internet Explorer zones
      • System link format
    • Operating-system dependencies
      • User accounts and authentication
      • File system
      • Background processes
      • Windows Cygwin
      • HP-UX and Linux
    • HP SIM database
      • SQL Server and MSDE
      • Remote SQL Server
      • PostgreSQL
      • Oracle
    • Command-line interface
    • How to: configuration checklist
      • General
      • Configuring the CMS
      • Strong security
      • Configuring managed systems
    • How to: lockdown versus ease of use on Windows systems
      • Moderate
      • Strong
  • 21 Privilege elevation
  • 22 Contract and warranty
    • Viewing contract and warranty information
    • Collecting contract and warranty data
    • Viewing contract and warranty status
      • Overview
      • System Information
      • Contract
      • Warranty
      • Monitoring contract and warranty status
  • 23 License Manager
    • CLI mxlmkeyconfig
    • License types
    • Licensed System(s)
    • Add Licenses
    • Collect Remote License Info
      • License Collection Results table
    • Assigning and Unassigning licenses
    • Apply Licenses
    • Add License page
    • Key details page
    • Assigning or Applying Licenses page
    • License unlicensed systems (optional) page
  • 24 Storage integration using SMI-S
    • About storage systems
    • Storage integration using SNMP
    • Storage events
    • Storage inventory details
    • Introduction to SMI-S for HP SIM
      • About SMI-S
      • Key components
        • CIM
        • WBEM
        • SLP
      • Profiles
      • SMI-S implementation
    • About storage security using SNMP
      • Discovery and identification
    • Using storage solutions
      • Event collection and launch
        • For Command View SDM
        • Configuring the SNMP trap destination on Windows 2000
        • Configuring the SNMP trap destination on HP-UX
        • Loading the HSV MIB on the CMS for EVA
    • Discovery
    • Configuring HP SIM with storage systems
      • Subscribe to WBEM indication events
      • Viewing storage system collections
      • Viewing individual storage systems
    • Viewing storage system reports
      • Existing storage system reports
    • Viewing storage array capacity
      • Viewing storage capacity for all arrays
      • Viewing storage capacity for a single array
  • 25 Managing MSCS clusters
    • MSCS status
      • Cluster fields
      • Node fields
      • Network fields
      • Resource fields
    • Cluster Monitor resource thresholds
      • Disk capacity thresholds
      • CPU utilization thresholds
      • Cluster resources supported by HP SIM
    • Cluster Monitor states
    • Cluster Monitor polling rate
      • CPU polling rate
      • Disk polling rate
      • MSCS status polling rate
      • System status polling rate
  • 26 HP SIM Audit log
    • Configuring the HP SIM audit log
    • Configuring the tool definition files
    • Configuring the log.properties file
    • Viewing the audit log
    • Example audit log
    • Log content
  • 27 HP Version Control and HP SIM
    • About the Version Control Agent
      • Additional resources
      • About the Version Control Repository Manager
      • About integration
      • About software repositories
      • About multiple system management
  • 28 Compiling and customizing MIBs
    • MIB management tools
      • mcompile
      • mxmib
        • mxmib MIB keyword customization
      • SNMP Trap Settings page
• A Important Notes
  • System and object names must be unique
  • Setting the Primary DNS Suffix for the CMS
  • Distributed Systems Administration Utilities menu options not available
  • Virtual machine guest memory reservation size
  • Insight Remote Support Advanced compatibility
  • Database firewall settings
  • Annotating the portal UI
  • Security bulletins
  • Validating RPM signatures
    • Checking which public keys are installed
    • Validate the signature on an RPM
    • How to check RPM signatures within the sysmgmt.bin
  • Central Management Server
  • Complex systems displaying inconsistency with the number of nPars within the complex
  • Configure or Repair Agents
  • Data collection reports
• B Troubleshooting
  • Authentication
  • Browser
  • Central Management Server
  • Complex
  • Configure or Repair Agents
  • Container View
  • Credentials
  • Data Collection
  • Database
  • Discovery
  • iLO
  • Linux servers
  • Event
  • Host name
  • HP Insight Control power management
  • Insight Control virtual machine management
  • HP Smart Update Manager
  • Systems Insight Manager
  • Identification
  • Installation
  • License Manager
  • Locale
  • Managed Environment
  • HP MIBs
  • Onboard Administrator
  • OpenSSH
  • Performance
  • Ports used by HP SIM.
  • Privilege elevation
  • Property pages
  • Reporting
  • Security
  • Sign-in
  • SNMP settings
  • SSH communication
  • System Page
  • System status
  • Target selection wizard
  • Tasks
  • Tools
  • Upgrade
  • UUID
  • Virtual identifiers
  • Virtual machines
  • VMware
  • WBEM
  • WBEM indications
  • WMI Mapper
• C Protocols used by HP SIM
  • SNMP
  • HTTP
  • WBEM
  • Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
  • Remote Wake-Up
  • Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
  • Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
  • Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
  • Protocol functionality
  • Configuring protocol settings in HP SIM
• D Data Collection
  • Append new data set (for historical trend analysis)
  • Overwrite existing data set (for detailed analysis)
  • Initial data collection
  • Bi-weekly data collection
• E Default system tasks
  • Biweekly Data Collection
  • System Identification
  • Old Noisy Events
  • Events Older Than 90 Days
  • Status Polling for Non Servers
  • Status Polling for Servers
  • Status Polling for Systems No Longer Disabled
  • Hardware Status Polling for Superdome 2 Onboard Administrator
  • Data Collection
  • Hardware Status Polling
  • Version Status Polling
  • Version Status Polling for Systems no Longer Disabled
  • Check Event Configuration
  • Status polling
• F Host file extensions
  • Default values
• G System Type Manager rules
  • Adding new SNMP rules
• H Custom tool definition files
  • Tool type-specific requirements
    • SSA-specific attributes
    • MSA-specific attributes
    • WLA-specific attributes
  • mxtool command parameters
  • Parameterized strings
  • Common tool attributes
  • Tool Filtering attributes
  • Environment Variables
  • Tool parameter guidelines
• I Out-of-the-box MIB support in HP SIM
• J Support and other resources
  • Related documents
    • Documentation and support
    • HP SIM documentation
• Glossary
• Index