HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

Command line interface.................................................................................................................305
Configuring or repairing agents............................................................................................................305
Overview......................................................................................................................................305
Windows CMS..............................................................................................................................306
Configuring managed systems from a Windows Central Management Server...................................312
Related Topics..........................................................................................................................312
HP-UX and Linux CMS....................................................................................................................312
Configuring managed systems from a HP-UX and Linux Central Management Server..........................312
Related Topics..........................................................................................................................317
Learn More - Installing the WBEM/WMI Provider for Windows............................................................317
Learn More - Installing the SNMP Provider for Windows......................................................................318
Learn More - Installing OpenSSH from CRA.......................................................................................319
Learn More - Installing the Version Control Agent...............................................................................319
HP Version Control Agent..........................................................................................................320
HP Version Control Repository Manager......................................................................................320
Learn More - Configuring WBEM/WMI............................................................................................320
Learn More - Configuring a non-administrative account for HP SIM to access WMI data..........................321
Learn More - Configuring SNMP......................................................................................................321
Learn More - Configuring SSH.........................................................................................................322
Learn More - Configuring VCA.........................................................................................................322
Learn More - Setting the administrator password for Insight Management Agents....................................322
Custom tools.......................................................................................................................................322
Menu placement............................................................................................................................324
Creating a new remote tool.............................................................................................................324
Creating a new CMS tool...............................................................................................................326
Creating a new web page tool........................................................................................................328
Managing custom tools..................................................................................................................329
New.......................................................................................................................................330
Edit.........................................................................................................................................330
View tool definition...................................................................................................................330
Run Now/Schedule..................................................................................................................330
Delete.....................................................................................................................................330
Editing a remote tool......................................................................................................................330
Editing a CMS tool........................................................................................................................331
Editing a web page tool.................................................................................................................332
Deleting a custom tool....................................................................................................................333
Viewing tool definition files.............................................................................................................334
Removing and restoring custom tools................................................................................................334
Removing a tool.......................................................................................................................334
Restoring a tool........................................................................................................................334
Environment variables for custom tools..............................................................................................334
Examples of using parameter strings in custom tools...........................................................................336
Custom tools reference....................................................................................................................337
Tool types................................................................................................................................337
Parameterized strings................................................................................................................337
Parameterized strings substitution table...................................................................................337
Tool filtering.............................................................................................................................339
Version numbers.......................................................................................................................341
Other requirements...................................................................................................................341
Document type definition...........................................................................................................342
Configuring DMI access.......................................................................................................................354
Configuring SNMP access....................................................................................................................354
Device ping........................................................................................................................................355
Disk thresholds...................................................................................................................................355
Setting disk thresholds....................................................................................................................355
Removing disk thresholds................................................................................................................355
Setting disk thresholds....................................................................................................................356
Creating a task to delete disk thresholds on a monthly basis................................................................356
Creating the task......................................................................................................................356
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