HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

Table of Contents
1 Legal notices............................................................................................29
Warranty.............................................................................................................................................29
Restricted rights legend..........................................................................................................................29
Copyright notice...................................................................................................................................29
Trademark notices.................................................................................................................................29
Release history.....................................................................................................................................29
2 Introduction.............................................................................................31
Online help..........................................................................................................................................31
HP SIM help categories.........................................................................................................................31
3 Product overview......................................................................................33
Additional resources..............................................................................................................................33
Features...............................................................................................................................................33
HP SIM management.......................................................................................................................33
Security..........................................................................................................................................34
Installation......................................................................................................................................34
Discovery........................................................................................................................................34
Custom tools...................................................................................................................................34
Reporting........................................................................................................................................34
Partner applications.........................................................................................................................34
What's new?........................................................................................................................................37
Installation......................................................................................................................................37
First Time Wizard.............................................................................................................................38
Security..........................................................................................................................................38
Users and authorizations...................................................................................................................38
Discovery and identification..............................................................................................................38
Setting up managed systems.............................................................................................................38
Data Collection...............................................................................................................................38
Automatic event handling..................................................................................................................39
License Manager.............................................................................................................................39
Reporting........................................................................................................................................39
Navigation.....................................................................................................................................39
Task Wizard...................................................................................................................................39
Miscellaneous features......................................................................................................................39
Product architecture...............................................................................................................................40
Central management server...............................................................................................................40
Managed systems............................................................................................................................40
System collections ......................................................................................................................40
Web-browser clients.........................................................................................................................40
Assistance............................................................................................................................................41
Additional resources.........................................................................................................................41
Technical support.............................................................................................................................41
Technical FAQs................................................................................................................................42
Related topics..................................................................................................................................42
4 Getting started.........................................................................................43
Product registration................................................................................................................................43
Signing in............................................................................................................................................44
Signing in to the GUI.......................................................................................................................44
Manually signing in to HP SIM.....................................................................................................45
Automatically signing in..............................................................................................................45
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