HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

Consider all the capabilities given by a tool, above and beyond the capabilities it is designed for, before
you associate it with a toolbox.
Default toolboxes
The All Tools toolbox is a default toolbox installed with HP SIM. The All Tools toolbox provides complete
access to all tools for the authorized system or system group. When a tool is added to HP SIM, the tool is
automatically added to this toolbox. Tools cannot be removed from the All Tools toolbox, and the All Tools
toolbox cannot be deleted from HP SIM. If you do not want a user to have access to all available tools for
a specific system or system group, they should not be authorized for the All Tools toolbox on that system
or system group.
CAUTION: Users assigned to the All Tools toolbox on the Central Management Server can execute
commands as any user. Therefore, these users could grant the administrative rights user privilege to themselves.
Another default toolbox is the Monitor Tools toolbox . This toolbox contains tools that display the state of
managed systems but not tools that change the state of managed systems.
HP SIM can have up to 32 defined toolboxes, including the default toolboxes. All toolboxes other than All
Tools and Monitor Tools can be enabled, disabled, or deleted.
User privileges
Administrative rights user Administrative rights users have been given special privileges to administer
the HP SIM software. Full rights users manage the following components:
• Authorizations
• Systems
• System groups
• Users
• Toolboxes
• Tools
In addition, full rights users maintain and back up the database and monitor the HP SIM audit log.
By default, root on a Linux CMS is assigned the administrative rights user privilege, but this permission can
later be revoked. This user is automatically authorized for the All Tools toolbox on all systems, including
the CMS. The administrative rights user privilege can be given to one or more users, and HP SIM requires
that at least one user is a administrative rights user.
Operator rights user Operator rights users have limited capability to configure the CMS. They have
permission to create, modify, and delete all reports and their own tools.
User rights user User rights user s cannot configure the CMS. Their ability to manage systems is based
on their authorizations.
Tools
Tools are applications, commands, or scripts that are launched from within HP SIM. You can add custom
tools to HP SIM and execute them across multiple systems simultaneously. Three types of tools are supported
in the HP SIM environment: Web tools, X Window tools, and command line tools.
Web tools must reside on a web server. The web server can be
running on the CMS or a managed system. HP SIM launches the
web tools
URL from a CLI or GUI. When a web tool is launched from the
command line, HP SIM opens a browser to display the tool. When
a web tool is launched from the HP SIM GUI, it opens in the
workspace or in a separate browser window.
X Window tools require that an X server is running. These tools
can reside on the CMS or on a managed system. When accessing
X Window tools
HP SIM from a network client, you must have X server software
running on the network client to execute an X Window tool. From
the CLI or GUI, HP SIM invokes the X Window application using
the command line and passes the location of the X server by
requesting the device for display from the user.
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