HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

NOTE: The First Time Wizard starts the first time a user with administrative rights signs in to HP SIM. If the
wizard is canceled before completion, it restarts each time a user with administrative rights signs in. You
can cancel and disable the wizard from automatically starting by selecting the Do not automatically show
this wizard again checkbox. The wizard can be manually started by selecting Options→First Time Wizard.
If you are a new administrator of an existing management domain , it might be useful for you to familiarize
yourself with these steps, even though your CMS has already been through the initial setup. The steps in this
process are common tasks that HP SIM administrators perform on a regular basis.
Initial setup process
When you first start HP SIM, the introductory page appears with a section called Do this now to finish
the installation. To get started using HP SIM:
1. Setting up managed systems Setting up managed systems involves installing the required management
agents and configuring HP SIM software. See “Setting up managed systems” for more information.
2. Configure storage systems If you have storage systems on your network, you must install and configure
their SMI-S providers before HP SIM can discover them. See “Configuring HP SIM with storage systems”
for more information.
3. Configuring protocol settings Configuring the protocol settings defines what systems are added to
HP SIM using discovery in the next step. See “Setting global protocols” for more information.
If you ran the First Time Wizard, the protocol settings might already be configured.
IMPORTANT: If you have storage systems on your network, you must add the user name and password
for each SMI CIMOM to the Default WBEM settings section of the Global Protocol Settings page.
If you do not add this information, your storage systems will not be discovered.
4. Configuring discovery: automatic or manual Discovery is the process that HP SIM uses to find and
identify the systems on your network and populate the database with that information. A system must
first be discovered to collect data and track system health status . There are two ways to discover new
systems:
• Automatic discovery. Searches the network for systems running specific protocols. It runs
automatically every 24 hours, but the process can be manually executed or scheduled to execute
at other times. See “Configuring automatic discovery” for information about automatic discovery.
If you ran the First Time Wizard, discovery might already be completed.
• Manual discovery. Used to add a single system or a group of systems to the HP SIM database.
See “Adding a system manually” for information about manual discovery.
IMPORTANT: If you have storage systems on your network, you must add each SMI CIMOM IP address
to a discovery task. If an SMI CIMOM IP address is not included in a discovery task, the associated
storage system will not be discovered.
5. Adding new users Any user with a valid network login can be added to HP SIM. See “Users and
user groups” for more information.
If you ran the First Time Wizard, new users might already be added.
6. Configuring e-mail settings Configuring e-mail settings enables users to receive e-mail notification of
certain events . See “Configuring e-mail settings” for information about e-mail settings.
7. Configuring paging settings Configuring paging settings enables users to receive pages that notify
them of certain events. See “Configuring modem settings for paging” for information about paging
settings.
8. Setting up automatic event handling Automatic event handling enables you to define an action that
HP SIM performs when an event is received. Automatic event handling can be set up to use the e-mail
and paging settings that you specified in the previous sections. See “Creating an automatic event
handling task” for more information.
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