HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

You can continue to add systems and collections and can enable automatic updates
for each selected collection. Since automatic updates for any authorization apply
to all authorizations using the same selected collection, changing the setting for
one affects any other authorization using the same collection. Therefore, during
system selections, if you select a group already associated with an automatically
updating authorization, the option Automaticall y track changes. If this collection
changes, so does the authorization is preselected. Likewise, if an authorization
that does not automatically update is associated with a collection, the option Do
not track changes. If this collection changes, the authorization will not
change is preselected.
c. If you want to select all individual systems from the collection, select the checkbox
at the top of the table view in the column heading to select all systems.
Note: This action creates a separate authorization for each selected system.
d. To save system selections, click Apply, or to return to the New Authorizations
section without saving changes, click Cancel.
After clicking Apply, a message appears based on the options selections. To return
to the New Authorizations section, click OK.
ii. Search Enter a system name and click Search, or select a system from the list and
click Search.
a. Select systems.
b. Click Apply, or to return to the New Authorizations section without saving changes,
click Cancel.
After clicking Apply, a message appears based on the options selections. Click
OK to return to the New Authorizations section.
A system group is a group of systems based on a system collection that is used for authorizations.
Authorizations that use system groups are updated automatically when a change is made to the system
collection that the system group is based upon. The option Do not track changes. If this collection
changes, the authorization will not change must not be selected for the authorizations to be updated
automatically.
If you selected individual systems of a collection, each selection populates the list box and is selected
for inclusion in the authorization. If you selected a collection and the collection has been used previously
in an authorization, a message appears stating that a system group for the collection exists and will be
updated with current source collection content. This condition affects all authorizations associated with
that collection. When a collection is used for the first time, no message appears. A system group with
the name of the collection followed by three numbers, usually (001) appears in the Select Systems
dropdown list and is selected.
4. To save the new authorization and close the New Authorizations section, click OK, or, if you do not
want to create the authorization, click Cancel.
NOTE: You you add CMS tools to any other system, a warning appears alerting you, that the authorization
just added contains an HP SIM-based tool in the toolbox and that the CMS server was not selected. It also
states that the authorization was created but might not authorize the user on all the selected tools. Some
tools in HP SIM are used to manage HP SIM itself. For example, discovery or viewing the HP SIM audit log.
This error means that one or more of these tools were in a selected toolbox and the CMS was not one of
the selected systems. To correct this error, select the CMS as one of the target systems.
NOTE: When upgrading to HP SIM 5.x from any other version of HP SIM, any system groups that the
user created are migrated, but become top-level collections. To manage these system groups, use the feature
to edit a collection and update an authorization. See “Editing system or cluster collections” and “Updating
authorizations” for more detailed information.
Command line interface
Users with administrative rights can use mxngroup to create and manage system groups from the command
line interface (CLI).
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