HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

Security
Multiple names in SSL web server certificate to alleviate name mismatch errors by the browser when using
different names for the system.
Users and authorizations
HP SIM allows for any user to be configured to have access to features like discovery, view audit logs,
automatic event handling and more. In addition, there is a single setting to enable users to add or update
security settings on HP SIM.
Discovery and identification
• Simple or Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) host names can be included in ping inclusion and
exclusion ranges for discovery.
• Discovering and identifying the HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server
2003/2008 for getting a rich set of hardware information for HP ProLiant hardware.
• Ability to discover all nPars in a complex, including those not currently active, from information gathered
in one nPar.
• Ability to discover all vPars in a vparmonitor, including those not currently active, from information
gathered in one vPar.
Setting up managed systems
HP SIM features have been enhanced to make setting up managed systems an easier task.
• The Configure or Repair Agents feature now includes the following enhancements:
SNMP traps can be sent from the managed systems to check the trap reception in HP SIM CMS.•
• WBEM indications can be sent from the managed systems that support WBEM providers and
verifies reception in the HP SIM CMS running HP-UX.
• Configure Single Sign on to managed systems.
• The new Manage Communications feature enables you to troubleshoot communication problems between
the CMS and the managed systems.
Data Collection
• You can now collect and display instant capacity (iCAP) properties for Cells and Processors, for an
iCAP enabled Complex, using Web based enterprise management (WBEM) protocol.
• On ISS HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008 enabled managed
nodes, data collection will give preference to HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows
Server 2003/2008 over WMI/SNMP for certain attributes.
NOTE: Currently, there is limited SNMP support in HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for
Windows Server 2003/2008. When data collection prefers over to HP Insight Management WBEM
Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008, a few of the items in the report that were collected from
SNMP earlier would be blank.
NOTE: The iCAP provider is available on HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31), HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) and HP-UX
11i v1 (11.11) which can only be installed on HP 9000 and Integrity servers.
• Added Horizontal discovery of node partitions (nPars) for cell-based Integrity servers or HP 9000 servers.
• Added Horizontal discovery of virtual partitions (vPars) for cell-based HP-UX 9000 servers or
procedure-based HP-UX 9000 servers.
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