HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

Automatically installing HP Systems Insight Manager ...........................................................................23
Manually installing HP Systems Insight Manager..................................................................................23
After installing HP Systems Insight Manager........................................................................................24
Next steps............................................................................................................................................27
4 Setting up managed systems......................................................................29
Installing the ProLiant or Integrity Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time..........................................29
Setting up managed storage systems..................................................................................................29
Installing SMI-S providers..................................................................................................................29
Verifying SSL...................................................................................................................................29
Configuring SMI-S providers..............................................................................................................29
Configuring HP SIM to discover storage systems...................................................................................30
5 Configuring HP SIM using the First Time Wizard...........................................31
Using the First Time Wizard....................................................................................................................31
Configuring the managed environment....................................................................................................32
Entering WBEM settings.........................................................................................................................32
Entering SNMP settings..........................................................................................................................33
Enabling automatic system discovery.......................................................................................................33
Configuring managed systems................................................................................................................34
Configuring e-mail settings.....................................................................................................................34
First Time Wizard summary ...................................................................................................................35
Finishing the First Time Wizard ..............................................................................................................35
Operating-system-specific collections, reports, and tools ............................................................................35
Operating-system-specific collections...................................................................................................35
Operating-system-specific reports.......................................................................................................36
Operating-system-specific tools...........................................................................................................36
Windows..................................................................................................................................36
Linux.........................................................................................................................................36
HP-UX.......................................................................................................................................37
Other........................................................................................................................................37
6 Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu................................................38
Configuring protocol settings..................................................................................................................38
Adding users........................................................................................................................................39
Adding toolboxes..................................................................................................................................41
Adding authorizations...........................................................................................................................41
Configuring email settings......................................................................................................................43
Setting up automatic event handling........................................................................................................44
Configuring and executing discovery.......................................................................................................47
Configuring and executing automatic discovery...................................................................................47
Configuring and executing manual discovery......................................................................................48
Configuring WMI Mapper.....................................................................................................................51
7 Configuring managed systems...................................................................52
Configuring the Managed System Software..............................................................................................52
Running the Configure or Repair Agents feature from the CMS...............................................................52
Setting up Linux managed systems manually........................................................................................52
8 Upgrading from HP Systems Insight Manager 4.x or later..............................54
Upgrading HP SIM 4.x or later to HP SIM 5.x in Linux...............................................................................54
9 Uninstalling HP Systems Insight Manager.....................................................57
Uninstalling HP Systems Insight Manager from a Linux system.....................................................................57
10 Using the graphical user interface............................................................58
Accessing the GUI................................................................................................................................58
Security Alert in Internet Explorer.............................................................................................................58
Graphical user interface features.............................................................................................................58
Customizing the GUI.............................................................................................................................60
Customizing the Home Page..............................................................................................................60
Customizing the System Status Panel...................................................................................................61
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