Getting started with HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 or greater in a smaller Windows environment

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Table of Contents

Introduction

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Systems Insight Manager basics

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Product architecture

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Central management server

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Browsing into Systems Insight Manager

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Managed systems

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Network clients

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Systems and event collections

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Credentials

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Authorizations

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Secure access using a web browser

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Managing HP ProLiant 100 series servers

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Managing storage

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Managing HP printers

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Managing clients

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Managing systems running HP

UX or Linux

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Additional Systems Insight Manager capabilities

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Version Control

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Reporting

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Tool definition files

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Integrating other Insight Control Software with Systems Insight Manager

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Installation overview and requirements in a Windows environment

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Populat

ing the HP Version Control Repository Manager

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Signing in to Systems Insight Manager

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Using the First Time Wizard

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Configuring the managed environment

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Enabling automatic system discovery

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Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign

in credentials

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Configuring managed systems

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Configuring WMI Mapper

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Configuring

privilege

elevation on HP

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Configuring e

mail settings

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First Time Wizard summary

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Finishing the First Time Wi

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Getting started with HP

Systems Insi

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Getting started with HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 or greater in a smaller Windows environment White Paper Subtitle Table of Contents Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 3 Systems Insight Manager basics ............................................................................................................ 4 Product architecture .............................................................
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Setting up Windows managed systems ............................................................................................. 16 Setting up managed storage systems ............................................................................................ 21 Installing SMI-S providers ............................................................................................................ 21 Verifying SSL ................................................................................................
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Introduction HP Systems Insight Manager (Systems Insight Manager) is a unified server and storage management application that assists in managing all HP servers, storage, and system hardware within your IT environment. Systems Insight Manager brings enterprise-level benefits to IT environments ranging from small networks to large corporate networks.
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numbers, and operating system , as well as enable him to track centrally and update server BIOS, firmware, and agents. With the addition of the HP Insight Vulnerability and Patch Manager software, he can even scan systems for security vulnerabilities, update operating system and application patches, and ensure that patches remain installed on the systems. Example 2 Wilma is an IT administrator in a small department within a large enterprise.
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Managed systems A managed system is any system in the management domain that communicates with the CMS. Managed systems can include servers, desktops, workstations, storage, printers, laptops, hubs, storage systems, SANs, management processors, or routers with an IP address. To get the full capabilities from Systems Insight Manager, ProLiant servers must have one or more management agents installed.
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8. Input the required SNMP and security configuration information. 9. Enter the Windows login credentials for the target systems. You must input a user name and password that allows Systems Insight Manager to log in to the target systems. Click Next. 10. Click Run Now. After the task is completed, the Task Results page identifies which configuration operations have succeeded and which have failed. Credentials  System credentials—Credentials used by identification to access managed systems.
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 Status polling of ProLiant 100 series servers Managing storage Systems Insight Manager has been significantly upgraded to manage storage devices that it supports through the SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative Specification) standards-based interface. SMI-S complemented with SNMP enables Systems Insight Manager to detect and configure storage systems including Fibre Channel-based storage arrays and tape libraries, hosts with HBAs, and Fibre Channel switches.
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hardware management and provides access to additional Altiris client lifecycle manag ement functionality.
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Note: This paper describes how to install and populate the Version Control Repository Manager to assist in the initial deployment of the ProLiant Support Pack for Windows to multiple managed systems. To learn how to set up version control in its entirety, the User Guide. Reporting Systems Insight Manager collects comprehensive system data, enabling you to quickly produce detailed inventory reports on an ad-hoc or regular basis. Reports can be saved in HTML, XML, or exported to CSV file.
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Populating the HP Version Control Repository Manager The HP Version Control Repository Manager is a repository that stores the software and firmware components used to support ProLiant servers on Windows and Linux platforms. By default, the VCRM is installed on the Systems Insight Manager central management server; however, you can specify a custom directory or server location.
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Figure 2: HP Systems Insight Manager – First Time Wizard Using the First Time Wizard The wizard can be started by selecting OptionsFirst Time Wizard. If the wizard is canceled before completion, it restarts each time an administrative user signs in. You can cancel and disable the wizard from starting automatically by selecting the Do not automatically show this wizard again checkbox and clicking Cancel.
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Managed Environment - Specifies all operating systems to be managed by the CMS. The selections made here configure Systems Insight Manager to show collections, tools, and reports only for systems matching the selected OS. This page also collects required details for each TDEF selection, such as IP address of the Ignite server, sign in credential information, and so on.
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enable and configure the System Automatic Discovery task during First Time Wizard or by selecting OptionsDiscovery from the Systems Insight Manager menu. If the System Automatic Discovery task is enabled, then it runs immediately when the First Time Wizard is finished to initially populate the Systems Insight Manager database.
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To configure managed systems from the First Time Wizard Configure Managed Systems page: 1. Select Configure newly managed systems when they are first discovered. 2. To specify credentials to configure the managed system for WBEM/WMI, SNMP, and SSH, select from the following: – Use the sign in credentials already entered in Systems Insight Manager. This account should be an account with administrative privileges. – Use these credentials.
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– 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.
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discovery after wizard finishes on the Discovery page, you are notified that discovery is running and where to go in the Systems Insight Manager to monitor the progress of discovery. Also included on this page is information on where to go to see discovered systems that you are managing and where to go to better manage these systems. To close the First Time Wizard, click Close.
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For this section, the following must be considered: – Create subscription to WBEM events, so that WBEM events will be sent to the CMS. – Send a sample WBEM / WMI indication to this instance of Systems Insight Manager to test that events appear in Systems Insight Manager in the Event list or All Event User Interface for the selected system. Note: The indication will appear as an of Systems Insight Manager.
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enable SNMP communication between themselves and a remote host. This setting is modified to enable the instance of the Systems Insight Manager system to communicate using SNMP with these target systems. You can enter a community string up to 255 characters. Repairing the SNMP settings adds a Read Write community string to the target system only if one does not currently exist.
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You can configure SSO to management processors for Onboard Administrator and for iLO2. To configure SSO, select Set Trust Relationship. After you configure SSO, you are not continually prompted to supply the login credentials for the management processor. For systems with Management HTTP Server 4.x and earlier, Configure or Repair Agents adds the Administrator password in the Management HTTP Server store and modifies the SNMP settings but cannot change trust relationship information.
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credentials. Credentials entered here are not saved by Systems Insight Manager except to run a scheduled task later. a. Select one of the following radio buttons: o Use sign-in credentials—these credentials must be a privileged account on the managed system. o Use the following credentials for all systems. b. In the User name field, enter the system administrator name. c. In the Password field, enter the system administrator password. d.
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Setting up managed storage systems Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) is a Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) standard that enables interoperable management for storage networks and storage devices. Systems Insight Manager uses this standard to discover and manage the storage systems it supports. You must have a storage system WBEM SMI-S provider installed and configured on a managed node for Systems Insight Manager to discover SAN storage.
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As your needs grow, you can easily integrate value added plug-ins into the base CMS to deliver management across the server and storage lifecycle. These plug-ins include applications for rapid deployment, vulnerability and patch management, virtual machine management partition management, performance management, and others. You can also customize your management platform with off-the-shelf or internally developed scripts and applications.
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Glossary central management server (CMS) A system in the management domain that executes the Systems Insight Manager software. All central operations within Systems Insight Manager are initiated from this system. HP VCRM (Version Control Repository Manager) An HP agent that enables a customer to manage HP provided software stored in a user-defined repository. HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) The underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web.
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For more information See the following resources: Systems Insight Manager website http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/ To download the latest version of Systems Insight Manager http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/download.html Migrating from Insight Manager 7 to Systems Insight Manager http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html Moving Systems Insight Manager to a New System http://h18004.www1.hp.