HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with Update 1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux HP Part Number: 418811-005 Published: April 2009 Edition: 5.3.1

6 Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu
Perform step 3 to configure HP SIM for your environment or you can use First Time Wizard in
Chapter 5 “Configuring HP SIM using the First Time Wizard”.
1. Install and configure the CMS. The procedure to complete this step is in Chapter 3 “Installing HP SIM
on the CMS for the first time”.
2. Install and configure the required management software on the systems that will be managed by the
CMS. For more information on this step, see Chapter 4 “Setting up managed systems” for details.
3. Configure HP SIM for your environment. The procedure to complete this step; is in this chapter or you
can use the First Time Wizard in Chapter 5 “Configuring HP SIM using the First Time Wizard” to perform
the initial configuration of HP SIM.
4. Configure the remaining protocols for the managed systems. See Chapter 7 “Configuring managed
systems” for details.
This chapter provides you with more configuration options then if you use First Time Wizard. The following
things need to be done to configure the protocols for the managed systems.
• Configure protocol settings
• Add users
• Add toolboxes
• Add authorizations
• Configure email settings
• Set up automatic event handling
• Configure and execute discovery
NOTE: If you use these option menus to configure HP SIM make sure you run discovery to discover all of
the systems that you will be managing.
Configuring protocol settings
Configuring the protocol settings defines how HP SIM communicates with the managed systems.
To configure the protocol settings:
1. Select Options→Protocol Settings→Global Protocol Settings. The Global Protocol Settings
page appears.
2. In the Ping settings section, choose from the following options:
• (Recommended) Use the ICMP protocol for system reachability (ping) check. This setting is
the default.
• Use the TCP protocol for system reachability (ping) check. TCP por t number. Select this
setting if your company has disabled ICMP on the corporate network or if the corporate policy
mandates system firewall software to filter ICMP requests. Enter the port number.
Windows XP has this feature built in and can prevent systems from being automatically discovered.
This option enables you to run HP SIM and ping all available systems.
This option applies to only IP-based systems and is available for global, system-wide settings that
are used when managing all systems in HP SIM. It is used by automatic discovery, hardware status
polling, the ping tool, and any other tool that must verify system availability. This option is not
available on a single-system basis.
When HP SIM attempts a connection request to a system, that system does not need any additional
software running on it for this option to work. For example, HP does not require that a web server
be running on port 80. Some networking systems might not respond to the TCP request, which is
typically seen in low-end networking equipment. You can make manual additions, if necessary.
However, this system displays as Critical if hardware status polling is run.
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