HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

NOTE: The toolbox name must start with an alphabetic character followed by alphanumeric characters,
embedded blank characters, underscore (_), or dash (-) and must be less than or equal to 16 characters in
length.
To add a toolbox:
1. Select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Toolboxes, and then click New. The New
Toolbox section appears.
2. In the Name field, enter a name for the new toolbox. This field is required.
3. In the Description field, enter a description for the toolbox.
4. To enable the toolbox and all authorizations created with this toolbox, select Toolbox is enabled.
5. To display a list of tools in the available tools list, in the Show tools in category field, select a category.
In the available tools list, select the tools to be assigned to this toolbox, and then click .
The selected tools appear in the Toolbox contents list. To remove a tool from the associated tools list,
you can select a tool displayed in the Toolbox contents list, and then click .
Note: The HP SIM Tools category includes tools that are related to configuration rights on the HP SIM
server itself. In previous versions of HP SIM, these rights were only enabled to full configuration rights
users. With HP SIM 5.2, any user can be granted these rights if needed based on an authorization.
These tools include: Delete Systems in HP SIM, Edit any user tasks in HP SIM, Edit HP SIM Notification
Settings, Edit HP SIM Reports, Edit Shared Collections in HP SIM, Edit Systems in HP SIM, Modify HP
SIM Events, Run HP SIM Discovery, and View HP SIM Audit Log.
Note: For users with operator rights and user rights to clear, delete, assign events, and add comments
to events, you must select Configuration Tool from the Show tools in category dropdown list. Then,
select Clear Events, Delete Events, Assign Events, and Comment Events as necessary, and then
click to add them to the Toolbox contents.
6. To save the new toolbox and close the New Toolbox section, click OK. To save the settings without
closing the New Toolbox section, click Apply, or to cancel the new toolbox creation and return to the
Toolboxes section, click Cancel.
Command line interface
Users with administrative rights can use the mxtoolbox command to add toolboxes from the command line
interface (CLI).
Users with operator rights can use the mxexec command to launch command tools on one or more systems
from the CLI. For assistance with this command, see the associated manpage.
See “Using command line interface commands” for information about accessing the manpage.
Related procedures
• Editing toolboxes
• Deleting toolboxes
• Toolbox report
Related topics
• Users and authorizations
• Toolboxes
Editing toolboxes
You can change toolboxes to modify the contents, name, and description of the toolbox.
NOTE: The All Tools toolbox cannot be edited. While, the Monitor Tools toolbox can be edited, but only
the set of tools contained in the toolbox can be changed.
To modify a toolbox:
146 Users and authorizations