HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with Update 1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux HP Part Number: 418811-005 Published: April 2009 Edition: 5.3.1

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 Linux:
• Firefox 2.0.0.20
• Firefox 3.0.4
To download, refer to http://www.hp.com/go/firefox.
• For HP-UX:
• Firefox 2.0 or later
• For Windows:
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 with Service Pack 2 or later
• Firefox 2.0 or later
NOTE: 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.
1. Open a supported web browser on any network client, and enter the address for the sign-in page by
navigating to http://hostname:280/, where hostname is the host name of the CMS.
Note: If you are signing in directly on a Windows CMS, you can use the HP SIM desktop icon to access
the sign-in page, or you can select Start→Programs→HP Systems Insight Manager→HP Systems
Insight Manager.
2. Enter your user name, password, domain, and time zone if requested.
Note: If the browser can determine its time zone with certainty, then the Time zone selection field does
not appear.
3. Click Sign-in.
Security Alert in Internet Explorer
When you browse to an HP SIM server for the first time using either IE6 or IE7, an SSL certificate warning
is displayed that begins, "There is a problem with this website's security certificate." This warning occurs
because HP SIM is configured with a self-signed SSL certificate that is generated on the server at the time of
HP SIM installation.
IE6 concludes its message with, "Do you want to proceed?"
IE7 concludes its message with, "We recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this
website."
You need to proceed in both cases. The same level of security exists whether you are using IE6 or IE7, but
IE7's warning message uses stronger wording.
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