HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with SP1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows
Table Of Contents
- HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with SP1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows
- Table of Contents
- 1 Product overview
- 2 Installation overview and requirements
- 3 Installing HP SIM on the Central Management Server (CMS) for the first time
- 4 Configuring HP SIM using the First Time Wizard
- Using the First Time Wizard
- Configuring the managed environment
- Enabling automatic system discovery
- Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign in credentials
- Configuring managed systems
- Configuring the WMI Mapper Proxy
- Configuring privilege elevation
- Configuring e-mail settings
- First Time Wizard summary
- Finishing the First Time Wizard
- Operating-system-specific collections, reports, and tools
- 5 Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu
- 6 Setting up and configuring managed systems
- 7 Initializing the Remote Support Software Manager
- 8 Upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager
- 9 Uninstalling HP Systems Insight Manager
- 10 Using the graphical user interface
- 11 Using the command line interface
- 12 Configuration options
- 13 Troubleshooting
- glossary
- Index
starts the timer for the time-out period. The default time-out period is 20 minutes. Users must use some other
means to protect an unattended session from illegal use, such as password-protected screen savers.
Active time-out policy The active time-out policy only keeps sessions alive if the user is actively using the
GUI, such as clicking on links and buttons. Display and refresh of the banner is not sufficient to keep the
session alive. The user is timed-out either by inactivity, closing the browser, or navigating to another site.
The default time-out period is 20 minutes.
Implementation
• To configure the time-out policy, edit the globalsettings.props file. You can switch between these
modes or change the time-out period. The default time-out policy is the monitor policy. The monitor
policy is enabled when:
EnableSessionKeepAlive=true
To enable the active time-out policy, change this value to false.
EnableSessionKeepAlive=false
• To change the default time-out period, edit the web.xml file. The default location for this Windows file
is:
• C:\Program Files\HP\System Insight
Manager\jboss\server\hpsim\deploy\Jboss-web.deployer\config\web.xml
Locate the session-timeout element, and set it to a new value in minutes.
<session-timeout>20</session-timeout>
HP SIM audit log configuration
Overview
Several features of the HP SIM Audit Log are configurable. For example, you can specify which tools log
data and the maximum Audit Log file size. The HP SIM Audit Log is configured through the log.properties
file, and tool logging is enabled or disabled through the XML tool definition files.
Tool behaviors The XML tool definition file provides an option to disable logging of
single-system aware
(SSA) and
multiple-system aware
(MSA) command tools. The log attribute for the command element specifies
whether the results of the command are output to the HP SIM log file. Command output is logged by default.
Audit log parameters In the log.properties file, you can configure the following Audit Log parameters:
• File name
• File extension
• Maximum file size in megabytes
• File extension of the roll-over name
• Amount of memory allocated for queuing items to be written to the Audit Log
Audit log location The location of the Audit Log can be configured using the path.properties file.
Implementation
Changes made to the log.properties file do not take effect until the log manager daemon or service is
restarted. For Windows, restart the HP SIM service.
CAUTION: The queue size should be changed only with extreme care. If the queue is set too high, the log
manager consumes too much system memory.
NOTE: When the Audit Log file reaches the maximum file size, the log is renamed with
MX_LOGROLLFILEEXT extension and a new file is started. If a previous version of the file has already been
106 Configuration options