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

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.

NOTE: The selections you make in the First Time Wizard are not applied until you click Finish on the

summary page.

NOTE: For more detailed information on each item below, see the detailed information later in the chapter.

Web-Based Enterprise Management

(WBEM) . Enter the default WBEM user names and passwords.

This information is used to discover systems that use the WBEM

management protocol

SNMP

. Enter the read community strings to use for all newly discovered systems. Community strings

set up the authentication that enables communication between HP SIM and a managed system. This

information is used to discover systems that use the SNMP management protocol.

See “Global protocols” for more information about WBEM and SNMP.

3. Automatic discovery. Use the wizard to enable discovery, set up the discovery schedule, and enter the

IP address ranges that include the systems you want to discover. Discovery is the process HP SIM uses

to find and identify the systems on your network and populate the database with information. A system

must be discovered to collect data and track

system health status

User

settings. Add the operating system user accounts that will be used to sign in to HP SIM. These

accounts associate a user account with privilege levels in HP SIM.

5. E-mail settings. Enter the e-mail settings the CMS will use to send e-mail notifications. You can set up

Automatic Event Handling tasks that cause HP SIM to send e-mails when the CMS receives a specific

event.

6. Automatic Event Handling. Define a task that will cause the CMS to send e-mail notifications based on

the selected event criteria or event collection.

NOTE: The First Time Wizard configures only the basic settings of HP SIM. See the HP SIM installation

guides located at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html,

and the Related topics section for more information.

Related procedures

• Entering WBEM settings

• Entering SNMP settings

• Enabling system automatic discovery

• Adding users to the Central Management Server

• Configuring e-mail settings

• Configuring automatic event handling

• First Time Wizard summary

• Setting global protocols

• Configuring automatic discovery

• Users and user groups

• Creating an automatic event handling task

• Users and authorizations

• Configuring HP SIM with storage systems