Getting Started with HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 or Greater in a Smaller Windows Environment

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Table of Contents

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 3

Example 1....................................................................................................................................... 3

Example 2....................................................................................................................................... 4

Systems Insight Manager basics ............................................................................................................ 5

Product architecture .......................................................................................................................... 5

Central management server ........................................................................................................... 5

Browsing into Systems Insight Manager ........................................................................................... 5

Managed systems ......................................................................................................................... 5

Network clients ............................................................................................................................ 5

Systems and event collections ........................................................................................................ 6

Credentials ...................................................................................................................................... 6

Authorizations ................................................................................................................................. 7

Secure access using a web browser ................................................................................................... 7

Managing HP ProLiant 100 series servers ............................................................................................... 8

Managing storage ............................................................................................................................... 9

Managing HP printers ........................................................................................................................ 10

Managing clients ............................................................................................................................... 11

Managing systems running HP-UX or Linux ............................................................................................ 12

Additional Systems Insight Manager capabilities ................................................................................... 13

Version Control .............................................................................................................................. 13

Reporting ...................................................................................................................................... 13

Tool definition files ......................................................................................................................... 13

Integrating other Insight Control Software with Systems Insight Manager .............................................. 14

Installation overview and requirements in a Windows environment .......................................................... 15

Populating the HP Version Control Repository Manager ...................................................................... 15

Signing in to Systems Insight Manager ............................................................................................. 15

Using the First Time Wizard ............................................................................................................ 16

Configuring the managed environment ......................................................................................... 17

Enabling automatic system discovery ............................................................................................ 18

Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign-in credentials ...................................................... 18

Configuring managed systems ..................................................................................................... 19

Configuring WMI Mapper ........................................................................................................... 19

Configuring privilege elevation on HP-UX ...................................................................................... 20

Configuring e-mail settings........................................................................................................... 20

Getting Started with HP Systems Insight

Manager 7.0 or Greater in a Smaller

Windows Environment White Paper

Summary of content (29 pages)

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Getting Started with HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 or Greater in a Smaller Windows Environment White Paper Table of Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 3 Example 1....................................................................................................................................... 3 Example 2............................................................................
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First Time Wizard summary ......................................................................................................... 20 Finishing the First Time Wizard .................................................................................................... 21 Setting up Windows managed systems .............................................................................................
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Introduction HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) is a unified server and storage management application that assists in managing all HP servers, storage, and system hardware within your IT environment. Systems Insight Manager brings enterprise-level benefits to IT environments ranging from small networks to large corporate networks.
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notification of potential issues with server and storage components such as drives, CPU, and memory, enabling him to fix issues before the lawyers noticed and phoned him. Answering fewer crisis phone calls save Sam much more than the time he spent learning Systems Insight Manager. Systems Insight Manager also helps Sam quickly locate information on his systems, such as serial numbers, model numbers, and operating system , as well as enable him to track centrally and update server BIOS, firmware, and agents.
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Systems Insight Manager basics Product architecture Systems Insight Manager is a simple distributed architecture comprising three types of systems: a central management server (CMS), managed systems, and network clients. Authorized users can access the CMS through a web browser GUI from any network client running Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Systems Insight Manager also provides a command line interface (CLI) to enable scripted operations.
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Systems and event collections Events are SNMP traps, WBEM indications, or other notifications from managed systems to alert Systems Insight Manager of failures, passing thresholds, or other abnormalities. Systems Insight Manager enables you to group systems and events by attributes or by selecting individual systems using system collections.
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Authorizations Only users with a valid user ID and password on the CMS can access and perform tasks on a particular managed system or group of systems. Each user can perform tasks using the tools in a toolbox authorized for that particular user. Systems Insight Manager has four default toolboxes including the All Tools toolbox and the Monitor Tools toolbox. Users who are authorized to use the All Tools toolbox can perform administrative tasks and can change the state of managed systems.
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Managing HP ProLiant 100 series servers The HP ProLiant 100 series servers only support the HP Insight Management WBEM Provider; the HP Insight Management Agent is not supported. Additionally, health monitoring and alerting are more limited with the ProLiant 100 series servers than through the ProLiant 300 series and above.
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Managing storage Systems Insight Manager has been significantly upgraded to manage storage devices that it supports through the SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative Specification) standards-based interface. SMI-S complemented with SNMP enables Systems Insight Manager to detect and configure storage systems including Fibre Channel-based storage arrays and tape libraries, hosts with HBAs, and Fibre Channel switches.
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Managing HP printers You can integrate HP Web Jetadmin with Systems Insight Manager to extend its management capability to include printers. The integration of HP Web Jetadmin and Systems Insight Manager provides: • Integrated server and printer discovery with printer drill down. Systems Insight Manager enables you to easily discover a wide variety of printers, drill down on a specific printer, and launch the HP Web Jetadmin device status page to troubleshoot or manage a printer.
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Managing clients The HP Client Manager Connector for Systems Insight Manager enables you to consolidate deployment and management of HP clients and servers within a single Systems Insight Manager console. This software extends the core functionality of Systems Insight Manager with HP client hardware management and provides access to additional Altiris client lifecycle management functionality.
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Managing systems running HP-UX or Linux For information about HP-UX management capabilities and Integrity systems, see http://www.hp.com/go/integrity/. For information about HP-UX CMS and managed system software for Virtual Server Environment technologies, see http://hp.com/go/vse. For information on the Linux agents for managed systems, see http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/linux/ProLiant-value-add.html.
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Additional Systems Insight Manager capabilities Systems Insight Manager provides a rich set of functionality to enhance management of your IT environment. After you have completed the basic setup described in this document, you can implement additional capabilities. For more information, see the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide at http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/sim/docs. Version Control Version Control can save time and support costs by ensuring the consistency of your server system software.
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Integrating other Insight Control Software with Systems Insight Manager Systems Insight Manager plug-in applications improve lifecycle management of HP hardware resources and extend the breadth of device coverage of HP products in your IT environment.
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Installation overview and requirements in a Windows environment Systems Insight Manager is available for download from the HP website and ships at no extra charge with all ProLiant 300, 500, and 700 series servers .The GUI is intuitive. The hardware, software, and networking requirements for Systems Insight Manager in a Windows environment are shown in the HP Insight Management Support Matrix at http://www.hp.com/go/insightsoftware/docs.
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3. During the installation of MSDE, you are prompted to restart the system. After you restart the system, restart the Systems Insight Manager installation process. Figure 1: HP Systems Insight Manager home page Using the First Time Wizard The wizard can be started by selecting OptionsFirst Time Wizard. If the wizard is canceled before completion, it restarts each time an administrative user signs in.
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Introduction – Describes the purpose of the First Time Wizard. You can cancel the First Time Wizard and disable the wizard from automatically starting when an administrative user signs in. Managed Environment – Specifies all operating systems to be managed by the CMS. The selections made here configure Systems Insight Manager to show collections, tools, and reports only for systems matching the selected OS.
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Enabling automatic system discovery Systems Insight Manager uses system automatic discovery to find and identify systems on the network. The System Automatic Discovery task is the default discovery task and is disabled by default. You can enable and configure the System Automatic Discovery task during First Time Wizard or by selecting OptionsDiscovery from the Systems Insight Manager menu.
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Configuring managed systems The Configure Managed Systems page in the First Time Wizard enables you to configure managed systems as they are discovered and to specify parameters for running the Configure or Repair Agents. All steps are optional and can be configured from the Systems Insight Manager Options menu at a later time. To skip this step, click Next to go to the next First Time Wizard step. To configure managed systems from the First Time Wizard Configure Managed Systems page: 1.
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Configuring privilege elevation on HP-UX From this page, you can enable privilege elevation for Linux, HP-UX, and ESX managed systems. This enables you to sign in as an unprivileged user and elevate the privilege to run on these operating systems. You can also configure privilege elevation from the Systems Insight Manager menu by selecting OptionsSecurityPrivilege Elevation. 1.
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If you enabled automatic discovery or selected Run discovery after wizard finishes checkbox, discovery runs when you exit the First Time Wizard. If you did not enable automatic discovery or unselect the Run discovery after wizard finishes checkbox, discovery does not take place until you select OptionsDiscovery from the Systems Insight Manager menu and enable a discovery task, or you select a task and click Run Now.
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If you system is not correctly identified, go to System PageTools & LinksEdit System Properties. Select the correct system type, or subtype, and then enter the operating system description manually. 5. Click Next. The Step 3: Configure or Repair Agents page appears. 6. The Step 3: Configure or Repair Agents page enables you to select options to configure the target system. The following options are available: – Configure WBEM / WMI.
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a. Select Set SNMP community string to specify a community string. By default, Systems Insight Manager first community string, that is public, appears in the field. If no community string exists in Systems Insight Manager, you must enter one. o Read Community String o Trap Community String If only HP-UX systems with default SNMP installation are being configured at this time, you need not set this option. HP-UX enables read by default (get-community-name is set to public by default on HP-UX systems).
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– – – SSH can be configured only if the OpenSSH service is running on the managed systems. OpenSSH can be installed on Windows systems, by running the Install Open SSH as done in step three:Configure or Repair Agents or by selecting the tool under DeployDeploy Drivers, Firmware and AgentsInstall Open SSH. Set Trust relationship to "Trust by Certificate." Select this option to configure systems to use the Trust by Certificate trust relationship with the System Management Homepage.
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7. Click Next. The Step 4: Enter credentials page appears. The credentials specified on this page are for a privileged account on the target system. If you select Configure secure shell (SSH) access for a Windows target system, then the account you specify must be a member of the local Administrators group. For Windows targets using a domain account, the account is automatically added to this group. 8. From the Step 4: Enter credentials page, enter the following credentials.
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You must have a storage system WBEM SMI-S provider installed and configured on a managed node for Systems Insight Manager to discover SAN storage. This includes storage devices such as Fibre Channel disk arrays, switches, tape libraries, or hosts (with Fibre Channel host bus adapters.) See the Systems Insight Manager SMI-S Provider webpage, http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim/providers, to view the latest information regarding Systems Insight Manager support for a particular device.
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Summary After you complete the Systems Insight Manager installation, the core capabilities of the software enable you to automatically discover systems, monitor system health, deploy system software and firmware updates, and set up paging or e-mail notifications for proactive notification of potential problems. As your needs grow, you can easily integrate value-added plug-ins into the base CMS to deliver management across the server and storage lifecycle.
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Glossary 28 central management server (CMS) A system in the management domain that executes the Systems Insight Manager software. All central operations within Systems Insight Manager are initiated from this system. HP VCRM (Version Control Repository Manager) An HP agent that enables a customer to manage HP provided software stored in a user-defined repository. HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) The underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web.
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For more information See the following resources: Systems Insight Manager website http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/sim/ To download the latest version of Systems Insight Manager http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/download.html Data migration of an existing Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight Management 7.0 system http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/docs Systems Insight Manager QuickSpecs http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/quickspecs.