HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

Command line tools include applications, commands, and scripts.
They can reside on the CMS or another managed system. They
can be launched directly from the CLI or GUI.
Command line tools
Information storage
HP SIM uses an audit log and a database to track activity and store your management domain information.
HP SIM audit log
HP SIM logs all tasks performed by all HP SIM users on all systems. The information is stored in the audit
log on the CMS. HP SIM logs all tasks with the following information:
• Time stamp
• User name
• Systems
• Event
• Tool result
For command tools, the verbose level of stdout and stderr is frequently large and time-sensitive, so it is
only logged by default for the ps command. You can configure the option to log this output for the ps and
other commands, as well as other aspects of the audit log, such as maximum file size. Information about
configuring the audit log is available in Chapter 12 “Configuration options” and in the "Administering the
Software" section of the HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/
products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html.
Database
HP SIM uses a database to store vital management domain information. The database contains the following
information:
• Authorizations
• Systems
• System lists
• System group definitions
• Users
• Passwords
• Toolbox definitions
• Tool definitions
• Events
• Inventory data
Database software
HP SIM supports the use of several databases:
• A local PostgreSQL is supported on a Linux CMS.
• Oracle 9i Release 2 is supported on all platforms.
• Oracle 10g Release 2 is supported on all platforms.
NOTE: For more information on installing Oracle, see “After installing HP Systems Insight Manager”
and Chapter 3 “Installing HP SIM on the CMS for the first time”.
NOTE: You must create the Oracle database using Unicode (AL32UTF8) as the character set before
installing HP SIM. You must also specify the thin client .jar file location. HP SIM requires Oracle database
and Transparent Network Substrate (TNS) listener services to be up and running when system is restarted.
Oracle by itself does not start the Oracle database and TNS listener automatically. An Oracle database
administrator (DBA) must set these services to be restarted when the server is reset. See the Oracle
documentation for details on how to automatically start these services at
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