HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Table of Contents
1 Legal notices............................................................................................29
Warranty.............................................................................................................................................29
Restricted rights legend..........................................................................................................................29
Copyright notice...................................................................................................................................29
Trademark notices.................................................................................................................................29
Release history.....................................................................................................................................29
2 Introduction.............................................................................................31
Online help..........................................................................................................................................31
HP SIM help categories.........................................................................................................................31
3 Product overview......................................................................................33
Features...............................................................................................................................................33
HP SIM management.......................................................................................................................33
Security..........................................................................................................................................34
Installation......................................................................................................................................34
Discovery........................................................................................................................................34
Custom tools...................................................................................................................................34
Reporting........................................................................................................................................34
Partner applications.........................................................................................................................35
What's new?........................................................................................................................................37
Product architecture...............................................................................................................................37
Central management server...............................................................................................................37
Managed systems............................................................................................................................38
System collections ......................................................................................................................38
Web-browser clients.........................................................................................................................38
Assistance............................................................................................................................................38
Additional resources.........................................................................................................................38
Technical support.............................................................................................................................39
Technical FAQs................................................................................................................................39
Related topics..................................................................................................................................39
4 Getting started.........................................................................................41
Product registration................................................................................................................................41
Signing in............................................................................................................................................42
Signing in to the GUI.......................................................................................................................42
Manually signing in to HP SIM.....................................................................................................43
Automatically signing in..............................................................................................................43
Configuring the CMS.............................................................................................................43
Configuring the browser.........................................................................................................44
Behavior..............................................................................................................................44
Signing in using SSL...................................................................................................................44
Logging in to the CLI........................................................................................................................45
Logging in to the CMS directly.....................................................................................................45
Logging in remotely using an SSH client........................................................................................46
Signing out .........................................................................................................................................46
Signing out from the GUI..................................................................................................................46
Logging out from the CLI...................................................................................................................46
Using the First Time Wizard....................................................................................................................46
Configuring the managed environment...............................................................................................48
Enabling automatic system discovery..................................................................................................48
Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign in credentials............................................................49
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