Getting started with HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 or greater in a smaller Windows environment

3
Introduction
HP Systems Insight Manager (
Systems Insight Manager
) is
a
unified server and storage management
application that assists in managing all HP servers, storage, and
system hardware within your IT
environment.
Systems Insight Manager
brings enterprise
-
level benefits to IT environments ranging from
small networks to large corporate networks. Regardless of the size or complexity of your organization,
Systems Insight Man
ager
can help you be more efficient and proactive in identifying, diagnosing,
and fixing potential issues for all of your HP hardware. For example, you can receive notification of
drive issues that enable you to replace the drive under warranty before it f
ails.
Systems Insight Manager
ships
on several HP platforms.
Systems Insight Manager
is included in the
HP
-
UX media releases, or it can be downloaded from
http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim
and implemented
quickly. The
default management capabilities enable you to auto
-
discover systems, monitor system
health, deploy system software and firmware updates, and set
up paging or e
-
mail notifications for
proactive notification of potential
issues
.
Systems Insight Manager
also
includes a set of fully enabled
licenses for value
-
added options such as patch management and performance management, which
enable
s
you to evaluate these additional capabilities on ProLiant systems. If you are responsible for
managing printers, storage, a
nd clients in addition to servers,
then
Systems Insight Manager
provides
additional value through consolidated access to specialized tools for managing these systems.
Systems Insight Manager
is easy to install and use. This paper guides you through the st
eps to install a
basic
Systems Insight Manager
configuration in a Microsoft® Windows® environment. For more
information about using
Systems Insight Manager
in other environments, visit the
Systems Insight
Manager
Information Library at:
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html
This paper also describes some of the advanced capabilities of
Systems Insight Manager
that you can
impl
ement
,
based on the needs of your organization.
Systems Insight Manager
highlights include
:

The
only unified server and storage manager platform in the industry
.
Systems Insight Manager
can
manage servers, storage, desktops, printers, and networking equip
ment and interfaces with
management tools for those systems.

Can be
installed and configured on
typical
Windows
®
systems
in less than one hour.

Includes a
graphical user interface (GUI) is intuitive and easy to learn (no extensive training
needed.)

P
rovide
s fault and inventory management for a
small number
of systems
or
thousands of systems.
By default,
Systems Insight Manager
provides unified server and storage management including fault,
inventory, and configuration management of all your HP servers and s
torage. Even if you have little or
no experience using management tools,
Systems Insight Manager
can help you
immediately
become
more proactive in detecting and solving system
issues
.
Systems Insight Manager
provides tangible
benefits in a wide range of IT
environments
as described in the following examples
.
Example
1
Sam is an IT administrator in a small firm of lawyers. He manages 5 servers, 50 desktops, 2 storage
arrays, 10 printers, and miscellaneous networking systems. He does not currently use manage
ment
tools. If the lawyers have a
n issue
with their systems,
then
they quickly pick up the phone and call
him. Sam does not think that his firm will invest in management tools
,
and he is not sure that he has
the time to learn the software. If Sam used
Syst
ems Insight Manager
, he would receive an e
-
mail
notification of potential
issues
with server and storage components such as drives, CPU, and memory,
enabling him to fix issues before the lawyers noticed and phoned him. Answering fewer crisis phone
calls sa
ve Sam much more than the time he spen
t
learning
Systems Insight Manager
.
Systems Insight
Manager
also help
s
Sam quickly locate information on his systems
,
such as serial numbers, model