HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 User Guide

2 Product overview
Systems Insight Manager features
• Automatic discovery
Automatically discovers and identifies systems attached to the network. Use discovery filters
to prevent discovery of unwanted system types.
• Health monitoring
Colored status icons enable you to see at a glance the operational health of your systems,
and quickly drill down to find the failing component if any are not ok.
• Fault management and event handling
Systems Insight Manager provides proactive notification of actual or impending component
failure alerts. Automatic Event Handling enables you to configure actions to notify appropriate
users of failures through e-mail or pager, , and enables automatic execution of scripts or event
forwarding to enterprise platforms such as HP Operations Manager or HP Network Node
Manager.
NOTE: Pager support is only for Windows-based Central Management Server (CMS).
• Inventory
Performs comprehensive system data collection and enables users to quickly produce detailed
inventory reports for managed systems. Save reports in multiple formats for easy incorporation
into popular reporting packages.
• Consistent multisystem management
Systems Insight Manager initiates a task on multiple systems or nodes from a single command
on the CMS. This functionality eliminates the need for tedious, one-at-a-time operations
performed on each system.
• Role-based security
Allows effective delegation of management responsibilities by giving systems administrators
granular control over which management operations users can perform on selected systems.
• Two user interfaces
Systems Insight Manager provides the option of a browser-based GUI or a command line
interface (CLI) that enables you to incorporate Systems Insight Manager into your existing
management processes.
• Customized tools
Simple Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents that enable you to integrate off-the-shelf
or custom command line and web-based applications or scripts into the Systems Insight
Manager user interface.
Basic concepts
Discovery and identification
Systems Insight Manager can automatically discover and identify systems attached to the network
using information from management protocols such as Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), WBEM, Secure Shell (SSH), and Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL). Create discovery tasks to limit discovery to specific network segments or IP
16 Product overview