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

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Managed Environment
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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 sys
tems 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.
Discovery
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Use the wizard to enable discovery, set up the discovery schedul
e, and enter the IP
address ranges or host names of the systems you want to discover. Discovery is the process
Systems Insight Manager
uses to find and identify systems on your network and populate the
database with that information. A system must be disco
vered to collect data and track
system
health status
.
Credentials: System Automatic Discovery
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Use the wizard to set the sign
-
in credentials and the
SNMP credentials for the System Automatic Discovery task.
Configure Managed Systems
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Configure managed sys
tems as they are discovered, by configuring
WBEM and WMI, SNMP, Secure Shell (SSH) access, and trust relationship.
WMI Mapper Proxy
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To retrieve managed system information on Windows systems, enter the
mapper proxy system host name and port number. This p
age does not appear if you are not
managing Windows systems.
Privilege Elevation
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Enable privilege elevation if, on HP
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UX and Linux systems, you are required to
sign in as a non
-
root user and then request privilege elevation to run root
-
level tools.
E
-
mail
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Enter the e
-
mail settings that the CMS use
s
to send e
-
mail notifications. You can set up
Automatic Event Handling tasks that prompt
Systems Insight Manager
to send e
-
mails when the
CMS receives a specific event.
Summary
-
Displays all First Time Wizard s
ettings with the option to modify settings or to finish the
First Time Wizard.
Note:
The First Time Wizard configures only the basic settings of
Systems Insight
Manager
.
Configuring the managed environment
From this page, select the operating systems th
at the
CMS
will manage. There are four options:
Windows, Linux, HP
-
UX, and Other. The selections made here configure
Systems Insight Manager
to
hide collections, tools, and reports for operating systems you do not use. By default the CMS
operating system i
s selected on this page.
Note:
These settings can be changed at any time, and the hidden collections,
tools, and reports can be made visible again. To change these settings
from the
Systems Insight Manager
menu, select
Options

Managed
Environment
.
To c
onfigure the environment:
1.
Select the operating systems for the CMS to manage.
2.
Click
Next
to go to the next First Time Wizard step, or click
Previous
to return to the previous step.
Enabling automatic system discovery
Systems Insight Manager
uses
system
a
utomatic discovery
to find and identify systems on the network.
The System Automatic Discovery task is the default discovery task and is disabled by default. You can