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

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hardware management and provides access to additional Altiris client lifecycle manag
ement
functionality.
You can use the HP Client Manager
Connector
to:

Discover and monitor the health of HP clients

Manage system software updates for HP clients

Deploy new client systems through an integrated deployment wizard

Remotely troubleshoot HP clie
nt
issues,
using in
-
depth diagnostic reports
Note:
You cannot install the Altiris Notification Server and the HP Client Manager
Software on a system running the
Vulnerability and Patch Manager
due to
conflicting IIS settings. The Altiris Notification Serv
er and the
Vulnerability
and Patch Manager
can be installed on systems other than the
Systems
Insight Manager
system. For more information,
see
HP Client
Management Solutions
.
Managing systems running HP
-
UX or Linux
For information about HP
-
UX management capabilities and Integrity systems,
see
www.hp.com/go/integrityessentials
.
For information about HP
-
UX CMS and managed system software for Virtual Server Environment
technologies
,
see
http://hp.com/go/vse
.
For information on the L
inux agents for managed systems,
see
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/linux/ProLiant
-
value
-
add.html
Additional
Systems Insight Manager
capabilities
Systems Insight Manager
provides a rich set of functionality to
enhance
management of you
r IT
environment. After you have completed the basic setup described in this document,
you
can
implement
additional
capabilities. For more information,
see
the
Systems Insight Manager
User Guide
at
http://www.hp.
com/go/hpsim
.
Version Control
Version Control can save time and support costs by ensuring the consistency of your server system
software.
Systems Insight Manager
catalogs HP s
ystem software such as BIOS, system drivers, Insight
Management Agents, HP utilities, and firmware on managed systems, and compares them to the latest
available from HP or with a standard baseline set that you define. The system software and the
baseline d
efinitions are stored in a Version Control Repository on the CMS. You can configure the HP
Version Control Repository Manager (HP VCRM) to automatically retrieve the latest software and
firmware from
http://hp.com
.
You can al
so
configure systems to compare installed software
with that in
a selected baseline set.
Systems Insight Manager
alerts you
of discrepancies so that you can use
Systems Insight Manager
to schedule an update of a system or groups of systems. For more
inform
ation,
see
the
Systems Insight Manager
User Guide
at
. For more information regarding Version
Control,
see
the manuals at
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/agents/documentation.html
.