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

10 Using the graphical user interface
HP Systems Insight Manager provides a browser-based GUI.
Accessing the GUI
The graphical user interface (GUI) can be accessed from http://localhost:280/ with any network client that
is running a supported web browser.
▲ Required web browsers
• For Windows:
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 with Service Pack 2 or later
• Firefox 2.0 or later
• For HP-UX:
• Firefox 2.0 or later
To download, refer to http://www.hp.com/go/firefox.
• For Linux:
• Firefox 2.0 or later
NOTE: Browser settings:
• For all Windows Internet Explorer browsers, you must have the SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.0 browser security
options enabled for HP Systems Insight Manager to work properly.
• To use automatic sign-in wih Firefox, you must configure Firefox with a list of sites with automatic
sign-in. For more information, see “Signing in to the GUI”.
Signing in to the GUI
You can access the HP SIM GUI from any network client using a web browser. For information about which
browsers are supported, see the HP SIM installation guides located at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/
products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html, and then select the appropriate guide for your
operating system.
NOTE: After accessing HP SIM, if you open additional windows in the same browser using the same HP
SIM URL, you do not need to sign in to HP SIM. Any time you start a new instance of the browser and
navigate to HP SIM, you must sign in.
If you sign in to HP SIM and then navigate to a different website, your HP SIM session times out. If you use
the same browser process to return to HP SIM within 20 minutes, you are not required to sign in.
Manually signing in to HP SIM
There are several reasons to manually sign in to HP SIM.
• If automatic sign-in fails, the sign-in page appears This might occur if the user is logged in to the
operating system using an account that is not an HP SIM account.
• If automatic sign-in is not attempted This might occur if the browser is not properly configured for
automatic sign-in, or the feature is disabled in HP SIM.
• If you click Sign Out from HP SIM This enables you to specify another user account if you are logged
in to the operating system with a different account.
To manually sign in to HP SIM
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