HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Creating and scheduling the task................................................................................................566
Creating a task to delete events older than 30 days...........................................................................567
Creating the collection..............................................................................................................567
Scheduling the task...................................................................................................................567
Creating a task to send an e-mail when a system reaches a critical state...............................................568
Creating the collection..............................................................................................................568
Configuring HP SIM to send e-mail.............................................................................................568
Configuring status change events................................................................................................568
Creating the task......................................................................................................................568
Status polling.....................................................................................................................................569
Software status polling example.......................................................................................................570
Hardware status polling example.....................................................................................................570
WMI Mapper Proxy............................................................................................................................571
Adding a WMI Mapper Proxy.........................................................................................................572
Editing a WMI Mapper Proxy.........................................................................................................572
Deleting a WMI Mapper Proxy........................................................................................................573
Protocols............................................................................................................................................573
Setting global protocols..................................................................................................................574
Setting protocols and credentials for a system or groups of systems.......................................................575
Setting protocols for a single system.................................................................................................576
Example XML file to add more than 10 WBEM username and password pairs.......................................577
Global protocols............................................................................................................................578
SNMP.....................................................................................................................................578
DMI........................................................................................................................................579
HTTP.......................................................................................................................................579
WBEM....................................................................................................................................579
Protocol functionality......................................................................................................................580
Data collection...................................................................................................................................581
Append new data set (for historical trend analysis).............................................................................583
Overwrite existing data set (for detailed analysis)...............................................................................583
Initial data collection......................................................................................................................583
Bi-weekly data collection.................................................................................................................583
Creating a data collection task........................................................................................................584
Command line interface............................................................................................................584
System properties................................................................................................................................584
Editing system properties for a single system......................................................................................585
Managing contacts........................................................................................................................587
Entering new contact information.....................................................................................................587
Editing contact information..............................................................................................................588
Deleting contact information............................................................................................................589
Managing site information..............................................................................................................589
Entering new site information...........................................................................................................589
Editing site information...................................................................................................................590
Deleting site information.................................................................................................................591
Example of setting system properties.................................................................................................591
Setting customer company and contact information individually......................................................591
Editing system properties for multiple systems.....................................................................................592
Example of setting system properties for multiple system......................................................................594
Globally setting customer information..........................................................................................594
Ensuring properties are propagated to discovered systems........................................................594
Ensuring properties are automatically propagated to newly discovered systems............................594
Setting customer information for complex deployments.............................................................595
Suspending or resuming system monitoring for a single system.............................................................596
Suspending or resuming system monitoring for multiple systems............................................................597
Version Control Repository...................................................................................................................597
PMP administrative options...................................................................................................................598
Managing SSH keys............................................................................................................................598
Configuring SSH key security...........................................................................................................599
Importing an SSH key.....................................................................................................................599
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