HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide 1
1Overview
This chapter contains the following topics:
• About This Product, page 1
• Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition, page 4
• Suggested Topics for First-Time Users, page 5
• Product Components, page 6
• The User Interface on the SE Home Page, page 8
• Installing the Java Plug-in, page 12
• Installing the Software Security Certificate, page 13
• Restarting the Service for the Management Server, page 16
About This Product
IMPORTANT: If you access HP Systems Insight Manager through HTTP over SSL (HTTPS), you must
provide the full DNS name for the host to be able to access HP Storage Essentials. For example, you
could access HP Systems Insight Manager by using
https://mycomputer.domainname.com:50000, but you could not use
https://mycomputer:50000. For non secure connections (HTTP), the full DNS name does not
need to be provided.
HP Storage Essentials is a family of open, standards-built SAN management and storage resource
management (SRM) solutions that enable you to visualize, monitor, report on, provision, and
manage your heterogeneous storage environment with unprecedented simplicity and speed.
Storage Essentials is integrated throughout HP Systems Insight Manager. You can determine where
Storage Essentials begins by looking at the menus. Whenever a menu item includes “Storage
Essentials,” it is a gateway into Storage Essentials. For example, assume you selected Tasks & Logs
> View Storage Essentials Logs. You have selected to view the logs for Discovery Data Collection in