HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

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SIM software, the CMS maintains a

database

for storage of persistent objects that can reside locally or on

a separate system. Typically, applications for the

MSA

tools also reside on the CMS. However, these

applications are not required to reside on the CMS. They can reside anywhere on the network.

Because the CMS is a system within the management environment, it manages itself as part of the domain.

You can add the CMS as a managed system within another management domain if you want to manage

the domain using a separate CMS.

Managed systems

Systems that comprise a management domain are called

managed systems

. A system can be any device

on the network that can communicate with HP SIM, including servers, desktops, laptops, printers, workstations,

hubs,

storage systems

, SANs, and routers. In most cases, these devices have an IP address associated with

them. A managed system can be managed by more than one CMS, if desired.

Managed systems to be managed must have one or more

management agents

installed. There is a wide

variety of agents, such as the ProLiant Insight Management Agents based on

SNMP

, or the

WMI

for Windows

systems, , or

WBEM

providers, and System Fault Management providers for HP-UX. These agents provide

management information and alerts (indications) to the CMS. The

SSH

agent (service) then enables the HP

SIM CMS to log in to the managed system to execute commands through scripts.

System collections

System collections group systems in the HP SIM database. Collections filter systems that share common

attributes, such as operating system or hardware type. System collections can also be arbitrary collections

of systems. Systems can belong to one or more system collections. Many default shared system collections

are provided, and you can create shared and private collections. Using system collections, you can, in a

single step, perform a task on every system in a system collection. See “Shared system collections” for a

complete list of all shared system collections.

Web-browser clients

You can access HP SIM from any supported browser client. The network client can be part of the management

domain. However, you must run a compatible browser to access the

GUI

or an

SSH

client application to

securely access the

CLI

. You can restrict access to the web server on the CMS to specific IP address ranges

for specific users.