Getting started with HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 in a smaller Windows environment

White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2

4 | March, 2013

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. Regardless of the size or complexity

of your organization, Systems Insight Manager can help you be

more efficient and proactive in identifying, diagnosing, and

fixing potential issues for all of your HP hardware. For

example, you can receive notification of drive issues that

enable you to replace the drive under warranty before it fails.

Systems Insight Manager ships on several HP platforms.

Systems Insight Manager is included in the HP-UX media

releases, or it can be downloaded from

http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim and implemented quickly. The

default management capabilities enable you to auto-discover

systems, monitor system health, deploy system software and

firmware updates, and set up paging or e-mail notifications for

proactive notification of potential issues. Systems Insight

Manager also includes a set of fully enabled licenses for value-

added options such as patch management and performance

management, which enables you to evaluate these additional

capabilities on ProLiant systems. If you are responsible for

managing printers, storage, and clients in addition to servers,

then Systems Insight Manager provides additional value

through consolidated access to specialized tools for managing

these systems.

Systems Insight Manager is easy to install and use. This paper

guides you through the steps to install a basic Systems Insight

Manager configuration in a Microsoft Windows environment.

For more information about using Systems Insight Manager in

other environments, visit the Systems Insight Manager

Information Library at

http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/sim/docs.