HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

• Automatic installation of HP SIM is now supported for x64 bit operating systems
• Replaced Postgres SQL with HPSMDB
First Time Wizard
• Streamlined the application by enabling you to specify the operating systems that are managed in your
environment, resulting in collections, reports, and tools for the selected operating systems only.
• Ability to automatically configure managed systems as discovery runs.
• Ability to test email configurations as e-mail settings are configured.
Security
Multiple names in SSL web server certificate to alleviate name mismatch errors by the browser when using
different names for the system.
Users and authorizations
HP SIM allows for any user to be configured to have access to features like discovery, view audit logs,
automatic event handling and more. In addition, there is a single setting to enable users to add or update
security settings on HP SIM.
Discovery and identification
• Simple or Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) host names can be included in ping inclusion and
exclusion ranges for discovery.
• Discovering and identifying the HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server
2003/2008 for getting a rich set of hardware information for HP ProLiant hardware.
• Ability to discover all nPars in a complex, including those not currently active, from information gathered
in one nPar.
• Ability to discover all vPars in a vparmonitor, including those not currently active, from information
gathered in one vPar.
Setting up managed systems
HP SIM features have been enhanced to make setting up managed systems an easier task.
• The Configure or Repair Agents feature now includes the following enhancements:
HP Insight Management Agents can be installed on ProLiant servers running Windows using the
Initial HP ProLiant Support Pack task from a Windows Central Management Server (CMS).
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• SNMP traps can be sent from the managed systems to check the trap reception in HP SIM CMS.
• WBEM indications can be sent from the managed systems that support WBEM providers and
verifies reception in the HP SIM CMS running HP-UX.
• Configure Single Sign on to managed systems.
• Can install and configure HP Version Control Agent and Secure Shell (SSH) from Configure or
Repair Agents.
• Can install and configure WBEM providers from Configure or Repair Agents.
• The new Manage Communications feature enables you to troubleshoot communication problems between
the CMS and the managed systems.
Data Collection
• You can now collect and display instant capacity (iCAP) properties for Cells and Processors, for an
iCAP enabled Complex, using Web based enterprise management (WBEM) protocol.
• On ISS HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008 enabled managed
nodes, data collection will give preference to HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows
Server 2003/2008 over WMI/SNMP for certain attributes.
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