HP Virtualization Manager and HP Capacity Advisor: an introduction

The system list shown in Figure 17-5 displays all of the systems in the All Servers folder. When
the name of one of the systems in the list is selected, the System Page for the selected system is
displayed. An example System Page is shown in Figure 17-7. The page shown in this example is
for the rex04 nPartition that has been used in several examples throughout this book. This page
shows detailed information for the system and provides links to more information. The events
that have been received from the system are also available from the system page.
The final HP SIM feature to be covered in the HP SIM tour is user-based security. HP SIM
provides a way for specific users, tools, and systems to be grouped together into an authoriza-
tion. When configured, each authorization allows the specified user to execute the specified tools
on the specified systems. The specified user has the ability to perform these management ac-
tions without being authenticated with super-user credentials. Instead, the user authenticates
to HP SIM with his/her own login credentials and performs actions they would otherwise not
be able to do because of insufficient privilege.
To fully appreciate the power behind this feature, consider the case where system adminis-
trators are not allowed login to systems as root. Instead users are forced to login with their unique
user names to allow tracking of the changes made to the system. In this type of environment,
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Figure 17-6 HP Systems Insight Manager Customizable System Lists