HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

Table of Contents
1 Product overview........................................................................................7
Features.................................................................................................................................................7
HP SIM management.........................................................................................................................7
Security............................................................................................................................................7
Installation........................................................................................................................................7
Discovery..........................................................................................................................................8
Custom tools.....................................................................................................................................8
Reporting..........................................................................................................................................8
Partner applications...........................................................................................................................8
What's new?..........................................................................................................................................8
First Time Wizard...............................................................................................................................8
Security............................................................................................................................................9
Users and authorizations.....................................................................................................................9
Discovery and identification................................................................................................................9
Setting up managed systems...............................................................................................................9
Data Collection.................................................................................................................................9
Automatic event handling..................................................................................................................10
License Manager.............................................................................................................................10
Navigation.....................................................................................................................................10
Task Wizard...................................................................................................................................10
Miscellaneous features.....................................................................................................................10
Product architecture...............................................................................................................................10
Central management server...............................................................................................................10
Managed systems............................................................................................................................11
Web-browser clients.........................................................................................................................11
Default toolboxes..................................................................................................................................11
User security.........................................................................................................................................11
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Authorizations......................................................................................................................................11
CMS user configuration rights.................................................................................................................12
Tools...................................................................................................................................................12
Information storage...............................................................................................................................12
HP SIM audit log.............................................................................................................................12
Database........................................................................................................................................13
Database software......................................................................................................................13
Secure access.......................................................................................................................................13
Command line interface...................................................................................................................13
Graphical user interface...................................................................................................................14
Secure data transmission........................................................................................................................14
Management protocols.....................................................................................................................14
Web server security ........................................................................................................................15
Self-signed certificates .....................................................................................................................15
X application security.......................................................................................................................16
Managing servers behind a firewall ..................................................................................................16
2 Installation overview and requirements........................................................17
First time install process overview............................................................................................................17
Upgrade overview................................................................................................................................17
System requirements..............................................................................................................................17
HP-UX Central Management Server.........................................................................................................18
HP-UX patches.................................................................................................................................18
Downloading and installing individual HP-UX patches.....................................................................18
Managed system requirements and recommendations................................................................................19
3 Installing HP SIM on the CMS for the first time..............................................22
Preparing the system..............................................................................................................................22
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