HP SIM V5.1 User Guide (356920-009, January 2007)

Signing out .........................................................................................................................................44
Signing out from the GUI .................................................................................................................44
Logging out from the Command Line Interface (CLI)..............................................................................44
First Time Wizard..................................................................................................................................44
Entering WBEM settings...................................................................................................................46
Entering SNMP settings....................................................................................................................47
Enabling system automatic discovery..................................................................................................47
Adding users to the Central Management Server.................................................................................48
Configuring e-mail settings................................................................................................................49
Additional e-mail settings...........................................................................................................474
Configuring automatic event handling................................................................................................51
First Time Wizard summary ..............................................................................................................52
Setting up managed systems...................................................................................................................53
Overview........................................................................................................................................53
Linux CMS......................................................................................................................................53
Setting up managed systems from a Linux CMS..............................................................................53
Installing the ProLiant or Integrity Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time..........................53
Configuring the Managed System Software...............................................................................53
Setting up Linux managed systems manually.............................................................................56
Example: Setting up remote Linux systems from a Linux CMS............................................................57
HP-UX CMS....................................................................................................................................58
Installing the required software on an HP-UX system........................................................................58
Configuring the managed system software................................................................................58
Setting up HP-UX managed systems manually............................................................................61
Example: Setting up remote HP-UX systems from an HP-UX CMS.......................................................63
Windows CMS................................................................................................................................63
Setting up managed systems from a Windows CMS........................................................................63
Installing the HP ProLiant Support Pack on Windows systems for the first time.................................64
Configuring the managed system software using the Configure or Repair Agents feature from the
CMS....................................................................................................................................68
Example: Setting up Windows managed systems manually..............................................................70
Performing initial setup...........................................................................................................................71
Initial setup process..........................................................................................................................71
Navigating the Home page....................................................................................................................72
Graphical user interface features.......................................................................................................72
Customizing the Home page..................................................................................................................74
Customizing the System Status panel.......................................................................................................74
Enlarging the System Status panel...........................................................................................................75
Utilizing RSS capabilities..................................................................................................................76
Setting language locale.........................................................................................................................76
Setting the web browser language or locale........................................................................................77
Configuring the language settings in Internet Explorer.....................................................................77
Configuring the language settings in Mozilla.................................................................................77
Configuring the language or locale settings in Windows.......................................................................77
Configuring Windows XP Language Settings..................................................................................77
Configuring Windows 2000 locale settings...................................................................................78
Configuring HP-UX and Linux language settings...................................................................................78
Configuring HP SIM.........................................................................................................................78
CMS locale...............................................................................................................................78
Target locale..............................................................................................................................78
Using command line interface commands................................................................................................79
manpages......................................................................................................................................80
Commands.....................................................................................................................................80
Entering commands..........................................................................................................................82
Permissions................................................................................................................................82
Quotation marks.........................................................................................................................83
Resource library....................................................................................................................................83
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