HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

1 Product overview
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is the foundation for the HP unified server-storage management
strategy. HP SIM is a hardware-level management product that supports multiple operating systems on HP
ProLiant, Integrity and HP 9000 servers, HP StorageWorks MSA, EVA, XP arrays, and third-party arrays.
Through a single management view of Microsoft® Windows®, HP-UX 11iv1, HP-UX 11iv2, HP-UX 11iv3,
and Red Hat, and SuSE Linux, HP SIM provides the basic management features of system discovery and
identification, single-event view, inventory data collection, and reporting. The core HP SIM software uses
Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) to deliver the essential capabilities required to manage all HP
server platforms.
HP SIM can be extended to provide systems management with plug-ins for HP clients, storage, power, and
printer products. Plug-in applications for workload management, capacity management, virtual machine
(VM) management, and partition management using HP Integrity Essentials enable you to choose the
value-added software that delivers complete lifecycle management for your hardware assets.
Features
HP SIM management
• Fault management and event handling HP SIM 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 , and enables automatic execution of scripts or event forwarding to
enterprise platforms, such as HP OpenView Network Node Manager or HP OpenView Operations.
• Consistent multisystem management HP SIM 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.
• Two user interfaces HP SIM provides the option of a browser-based GUI or a command line interface
(CLI) to make it easy to incorporate HP SIM into your existing management processes.
• Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) indications for HP-UX, Linux, and Storage Management
Initiative Specification (SMI-S) devices HP SIM enables you to use the GUI or CLI to subscribe and
unsubscribe to WBEM indications.
Security
• Role-based security HP SIM enables effective delegation of management responsibilities by giving
system administrators granular control over which users can perform specific management operations
on specific systems.
• Secure remote management HP SIM leverages operating system security for user authentication and
uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Secure Shell (SSH) to encrypt management communications.
• Configure or Repair Agents This feature enables you to repair credentials for SNMP settings, System
Management Homepage, or Management HTTP Server trust relationships on Windows, Linux, and
HP-UX systems supported by HP SIM.
Installation
• Easy and rapid installation. HP SIM can be installed, quickly and easily, on HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX
11i v2, or HP-UX 11i v3 on PA-RISC/Integrity server platforms, or on ProLiant platforms running Windows
or Linux.
• First Time Wizard HP SIM provides you with step-by-step, online instructions for performing the initial
configuration of HP SIM. The wizard helps you configure HP SIM settings on the Central Management
Server (CMS).
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