HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

1. To configure privilege elevation for ESX systems, select Enable privilege elevation for VMware ESX.
To configure privilege elevation for Linux and HP-UX systems, select Enable privilege elevation for
Linux & HP-UX.
2. Select the elevation tool type from the menu.
If a password is required for the tool, select A password is required for this privilege elevation
tool.
3. (Optional) Edit the Privilege elevation tool command.
4. Select the user to sign in to the managed system:
• Same as HP SIM signed-in user
• Specify at run time
• Use this user and enter the user name
5. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click Next, or to return to the previous step, click Previous.
Related procedures
• Configuring the managed environment
• Enabling automatic system discovery
• Configuring managed systems
• Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign in credentials
• Configuring the WMI Mapper Proxy
• Configuring e-mail settings
• Configuring automatic discovery
Related topics
• Using the First Time Wizard
• Operating-system-specific collections, reports, and tools
• Discovery and identification
• Configuring automatic discovery general settings
• Configuring HP SIM with storage systems
Configuring e-mail settings
1. Enter the SMTP host name. The SMTP host is the outgoing e-mail server that the CMS uses to send e-mail
notifications.
2. In the Sender's e-mail address box, enter the e-mail address that the management server uses when
sending e-mail notifications.
3. (Optional) Select Send test email and enter recipients e-mail address.
Click Send test email now.
4. To authenticate your SMTP server, select Server Requires Authentication.
5. Enter the account user name and password in the corresponding boxes.
NOTE: If you did not enter a valid SMTP host, HP SIM display an error message: The email could not
be sent: Could not connect to the SMTP host.
If you are changing the e-mail settings from the Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→Email
Settings page, click OK to save changes.
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