White paper Getting Started with HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 in a Smaller Windows Environment HP Systems Insight Manager 7.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Table of contents Introduction ........................................................................................ 4 Example 1 ........................................................................................ 6 Example 2 ........................................................................................ 6 Systems Insight Manager basics ..................................................... 7 Product architecture .................................
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Populating the HP Version Control Repository Manager .......14 Signing in to Systems Insight Manager .....................................14 Using the First Time Wizard ........................................................15 Configuring the managed environment ........................................................................................... 16 Enabling automatic system discovery .......................................................................
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 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.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 This paper also describes some of the advanced capabilities of Systems Insight Manager that you can implement, based on the needs of your organization.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Example 1 Sam is an IT administrator in a small firm of lawyers. He manages five servers, 50 desktops, two storage arrays, 10 printers, and miscellaneous networking systems. He does not currently use management tools. If the lawyers have an issue with their systems, then they quickly pick up the phone and call him. Sam does not think that his firm will invest in management tools, and he is not sure that he has the time to learn the software.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Systems Insight Manager basics Product architecture Systems Insight Manager uses 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.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Network clients You can access Systems Insight Manager from any network client. The network client can be part of the management domain and must be running a compatible browser to access the GUI or a Secure Shell (SSH) client application to securely access the CLI.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Credentials System credentials are used by identification to access managed systems. These credentials include Sign-in credentials; SNMP and SNMP V3 credentials; WBEM, WS-MAN, and SSH credentials; and VME and Single Sign-On credentials. Discovery task credentials are used by a discovery task that applies to all systems discovered by that task. Global credentials apply to all systems.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 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 with the ProLiant 300 series and later.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 For value-added storage management functionality such as automated storage provisioning, application management, and chargeback, the HP Storage Essentials suite offers a full set of modules that can be deployed individually or as a set. Each module is tightly integrated with Systems Insight Manager, ensuring single sign-on, UI integration, common discovery, and reporting. For more information on HP Storage Essentials, visit http://www.hp.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Note: You cannot install the Altiris Notification Server and the HP Client Manager Software on a system running the Vulnerability and Patch Manager due to conflicting IIS settings. The Altiris Notification Server and the Vulnerability and Patch Manager can be installed on systems other than the Systems Insight Manager system. For more information, see HP Client Management Solutions.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 information regarding Version Control, see the manuals at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/agents/documentation.html. Note: This paper describes how to install and populate the HP VCRM to assist in the initial deployment of the ProLiant Support Pack for Windows to multiple managed systems. To learn how to set up version control in its entirety, see the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 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.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Note: After you restart the CMS, the Systems Insight Manager HTTP server might require a few minutes to initialize. 2. Enter the user credentials that you provided during the installation. The Systems Insight Manager GUI (Figure 1) appears. The System and Event Collections panel on the left side of the user interface is pre-populated with a number of default system and event collections.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Note: The default settings in Firefox block the First Time Wizard. You must disable the pop-up blocker in Firefox to see the First Time Wizard. The First Time Wizard includes several features, including the following options: Introduction—This option 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.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 To configure the environment: 1. Select the operating systems for the CMS to manage. 2. Click Next to go to the next First Time Wizard step, or click Previous to return to the previous step. 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.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 2. To have Systems Insight Manager try other credentials if the entered credentials fail, select If these credentials fail, try other credentials that may apply.... 3. Enter read community strings for SNMP credentials for the System Automatic Discovery task. To add additional SNMP credentials, click [Add]. To delete existing SNMP credentials, click [Delete] beside the credentials that you want to delete.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 User based authentication Each user must be authenticated on the managed system. 6. Select Trust relationship to set a trust relationship between managed systems and CMS. This enables Systems Insight Manager users to connect to HP SMH, Onboard Administrator, iLO (version 2 and later), and HP Version Control Agent (VCA) using the Systems Insight Manager certificate for authentication plan. 7.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Configuring e-mail settings To use the First Time Wizard to configure Systems Insight Manager to send e-mail notifications through automatic event handling: 1. Enter the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) host name. The SMTP host is the outgoing e-mail server that the CMS uses to send e-mail notifications. 2. In the Sender's e-mail address box, enter the e-mail address that the management server uses when sending e-mail notifications. 3.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Configuring the managed system software using the Configure or Repair Agents feature from the CMS The Systems Insight Manager Configure or Repair Agents tool is a quick and easy way to configure Linux, HP-UX, and Windows managed systems to communicate with Systems Insight Manager from a Windows CMS. To run Configure or Repair Agents remotely against multiple systems simultaneously, you must have authorizations to run the Configure or Repair Agents tool.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Note: The indication will appear as an Informational Event in the Event List of Systems Insight Manager. This is supported only on HP-UX and Windows managed systems with WBEM provider installed. Use a Systems Insight Manager WBEM certificate (good for 10 years) rather than a username/password to manage the system. This option deploys a WBEM certificate to the managed system and is only valid for HP-UX systems.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 If this option is selected, the Read Only community string is added to the target systems. If the target system is SUSE Linux or Microsoft Windows 2003, the managed systems do not always enable SNMP communication between themselves and a remote host. This setting is modified to enable the instance of the Systems Insight Manager system to communicate using SNMP with these target systems. You can enter a community string up to 255 characters.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 User based authentication Each user has to be authenticated on the managed system. If you do not want all users that have sign-in access to Systems Insight Manager to run the tool and you would like to control which users need to have access, this option is more secure. SSH can be configured only if the OpenSSH service is running on the managed systems.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 d. In the Confirm Password field, reenter the password for the VCRM just as you entered it in the Password field. e. In the Domain field, enter the Windows domain if the target belongs to a domain. – Set administrator password for Insight Management Agents version 7.1 or earlier Select this option to repair the administrator password on all Insight Management Agents installed on the target systems as applicable for Windows and Linux systems.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Select one of the following radio buttons: – Use sign-in credentials These credentials must be a privileged account on the managed system. – Use the following credentials for all systems In the User name field, enter the system administrator name. In the Password field, enter the system administrator password. In the Password (verify) field, reenter the system administrator password.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 As with other HP Systems Insight Manager tools, you can configure the Configure or Repair Agents tool to run on a schedule or manually. Only one instance of Configure or Repair Agents tool can run at a time. Setting up managed storage systems Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) is a Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) standard that enables interoperable management for storage networks and storage devices.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 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.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Glossary 29 | March, 2013 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. CIMOM Common information Model Object Manager. DCOM Distributed Component Object Model.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 30 | March, 2013 SSH (Secure Shell) SSH is a program that enables you to log into another system over a network and execute commands on that system. It also enables you to move files from one system to another, and it provides authentication and secure communications over insecure channels. SSH uses a public/private key pair to provide a secure mechanism to authenticate and encrypt communication.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 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 7.2 system: http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/docs Systems Insight Manager QuickSpecs: http://h18013.www1.hp.
