Systems Insight Manager 6.1 User Guide

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Table of Contents

I Introduction...............................................................................................11

1 About this document.............................................................................12

User Guide.....................................................................................................................................12

Systems Insight Manager User Guide layout........................................................................................12

2 Product overview..................................................................................13

Systems Insight Manager features.......................................................................................................13

Basic concepts................................................................................................................................13

Discovery and identification.........................................................................................................13

Inventory...................................................................................................................................13

Status info.................................................................................................................................13

Reports......................................................................................................................................14

Automatic event handling............................................................................................................14

Tools and tasks...........................................................................................................................14

Collections.................................................................................................................................14

Users and Authorizations.............................................................................................................14

Signing in and using the graphical user interface.................................................................................15

Security Alerts in Internet Explorer and Firefox................................................................................15

Automatically signing in..............................................................................................................15

Configuring the CMS.............................................................................................................15

Configuring the browser.........................................................................................................16

Behavior..............................................................................................................................16

Guided tour of the Systems Insight Manager user interface...............................................................17

Customizing views......................................................................................................................18

II Setting up Systems Insight Manager............................................................19

3 Setting up managed systems..................................................................20

Setting up Windows servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager................................................20

Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on a Systems Insight Manager Windows systems for the first time....20

Requirements........................................................................................................................20

Installing the ProLiant Support Pack..........................................................................................20

Setting up HP-UX servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager....................................................22

Manually setting up an HP-UX managed system..............................................................................23

Configuring SNMP to send traps to the CMS.............................................................................23

Configuring SSH access.........................................................................................................24

Subscribing to WBEM indications/events:................................................................................24

Setting up Linux servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager......................................................25

Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time................................................25

Configuring agents remotely using Configure or Repair Agents:........................................................25

Manually setting up Linux managed systems...................................................................................25

Installing and configuring SSH................................................................................................25

Configuring a Linux system to send SNMP traps.........................................................................25

4 Credentials..........................................................................................27

Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password pairs.........................................27

5 WMI Mapper Proxy .............................................................................29

6 Discovery............................................................................................30

Recommended discovery tasks...........................................................................................................30

Options on the Discovery page.........................................................................................................31

Discovery credentials........................................................................................................................31

Configuring Configure or Repair Agents through a discovery task..........................................................31

Viewing discovery task results............................................................................................................31

Discovery filters...............................................................................................................................32

7 Manage Communications......................................................................33

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