Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for MS Windows

4 Setting up and configuring managed systems
At this point, steps 1 and 2 below are complete. Perform step 3 to install and configure the required
management software.
1. Install and configure the CMS. See Chapter 2 “Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for
the first time”.
2. Configure HP Systems Insight Manager for your environment. See Chapter 3 “Configuring HP Systems
Insight Manager”.
IMPORTANT: You must run Discovery before setting up managed systems. See Configuring HP Systems
Insight Manager. Configuring Automatic Discovery is part of the First Time Wizard.
3. Install and configure the required management software on the systems that will be managed by the
CMS. The procedure to complete this step is in this chapter.
4. Configure the remaining protocols for the managed systems. The procedure to complete this step is in
this chapter.
Overview
Setting up managed systems involves installing the required management software. The management software
being installed depends on the type of managed system, for:
• Storage systems (see below)
• Windows systems (see below)
• HP-UX see the Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX (http://
h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html)
• Linux see the Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux (http://
h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html)
Setting up managed systems using the HP Systems Insight Manager interface
The HP Insight managed system setup wizard and Configure or Repair Agents tools, enable you to configure
your managed systems by installing agents, applying licenses, and executing configuration steps. To run
these tools against multiple systems simultaneously, you must have authorizations to run the managed system
setup wizard and Configure or Repair Agents tools. You must have full CMS configuration privileges to
modify the HP Systems Insight Manager community strings in the node security file. In addition, you must
enter root or administrator level user credentials for the target system.
The Insight managed system setup wizard is a HP Systems Insight Manager plug-in tool that simplifies
configuring Insight software components for use on managed systems. The wizard is especially useful to
configure managed systems for use with HP Insight Dynamics components, but it can also be used to set up
managed systems for Insight Control and HP Systems Insight Manager.
NOTE: You must have selected to install Insight managed system setup wizard when installing Systems
Insight Manager.
Using the Insight managed system setup wizard requires the System Setup toolbox authorization in Systems
Insight Manager.
Authorize the System Setup toolbox on the CMS to allow use of the managed system setup wizard. Authorize
this toolbox on each managed system that will be configured using the managed system setup wizard.
• To run Configure or Repair Agents, select Configure→Configure or Repair Agents.
• To run the Insight managed system setup wizard, select Configure→Managed system setup wizard.
For more information on HP Insight managed system setup wizard, see Insight Managed System Setup
Wizard Getting Started Guide at http://www.hp.com/go/insightsoftware/docs..
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