HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Windows HP Part Number: 418812-005

Table of Contents
1 Product overview........................................................................................8
Product architecture.................................................................................................................................8
Central management server.................................................................................................................8
Managed systems..............................................................................................................................8
Web-browser clients...........................................................................................................................8
Authorizations........................................................................................................................................9
Toolboxes............................................................................................................................................10
Tools...................................................................................................................................................10
Information storage...............................................................................................................................10
HP SIM audit log.............................................................................................................................10
Database........................................................................................................................................11
Database software......................................................................................................................11
Secure access.......................................................................................................................................12
Command line interface...................................................................................................................12
Graphical user interface...................................................................................................................12
Secure data transmission........................................................................................................................13
Management protocols.....................................................................................................................13
Web server security.........................................................................................................................14
Self-signed certificates......................................................................................................................14
X application security.......................................................................................................................14
Managing servers behind a firewall...................................................................................................14
2 Installation overview and requirements........................................................15
First time install process overview............................................................................................................15
Upgrade overview.................................................................................................................................15
System requirements..............................................................................................................................15
Windows Central Management Server...............................................................................................15
HP SIM 5.3 Windows Virtual Machine support....................................................................................17
Managed system requirements and recommendations...........................................................................17
SSH requirements.............................................................................................................................22
Foreign language support.................................................................................................................22
3 Installing HP SIM on the Central Management Server (CMS) for the first time....24
Preparing the system..............................................................................................................................24
Typical install........................................................................................................................................30
Custom install.......................................................................................................................................33
Silent install..........................................................................................................................................42
Next steps............................................................................................................................................44
4 Configuring HP SIM using the First Time Wizard...........................................45
Using the First Time Wizard....................................................................................................................45
Configuring the managed environment....................................................................................................46
Enabling automatic system discovery.......................................................................................................46
Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign in credentials.................................................................47
Configuring managed systems................................................................................................................47
Configuring the WMI Mapper Proxy........................................................................................................48
Configuring privilege elevation...............................................................................................................48
Configuring e-mail settings.....................................................................................................................48
First Time Wizard summary ...................................................................................................................49
Finishing the First Time Wizard ..............................................................................................................49
Operating-system-specific collections, reports, and tools ............................................................................49
Operating-system-specific collections...................................................................................................49
Operating-system-specific reports.......................................................................................................50
Operating-system-specific tools...........................................................................................................50
Windows..................................................................................................................................50
Linux.........................................................................................................................................50
HP-UX.......................................................................................................................................51
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