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
6 Setting up and configuring managed systems
At this point, steps 1 and 2 below are complete. Perform step 3 to install and configure the required
management software.
1. Install and configure the CMS. The procedure to complete this step is in Chapter 3 “Installing HP SIM
on the Central Management Server (CMS) for the first time”.
2. Configure HP SIM for your environment. See Chapter 4 “Configuring HP SIM using the First Time
Wizard” or Chapter 5 “Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu” for the recommended tasks.
IMPORTANT: Discovery must be run before setting up managed systems. Configuring Automatic
Discovery is part of the First Time Wizard.
3. Install and configure the required management software on the systems that will be managed by the
CMS. The procedure to complete this step is in this chapter.
4. Configure the remaining protocols for the managed systems.
Setting up managed systems involves installing the required management software. The management software
being installed depends on the type of managed system.
• HP-UX see the HP SIM Installation and Configuration guide for HP-UX
• Storage systems (see below)
• Windows systems (see below)
• Linux - see the
HP SIM 5.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux
(http://h18013.www1.hp.com/
products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html)
Setting up managed systems from a Windows CMS
Use the following checklist as a guideline to assist you with setting up managed systems.
1. Ensure that HP SIM is installed on the CMS.
2. Ensure the First Time Wizard has been completed on the CMS.
Important: You must run discovery before setting up managed systems. Configuring automatic discovery
is part of the First Time Wizard.
3. Configure the managed system software. See Configuring the managed system software using the
Configure or Repair Agents feature from the CMS for more information.
Configuring the managed system software using the Configure or Repair Agents
feature from the CMS
The HP SIM Configure or Repair Agents tool is a quick and easy way to configure Windows, Linux, and
HP-UX managed systems to communicate with HP SIM from a Windows CMS.
To run Configure or Repair Agents remotely against multiple systems simultaneously, you must have
authorizations to run the Configure or Repair Agents tool.
You must have full CMS administrative privileges to modify the HP SIM community strings in the system
security file. In addition, you must enter administrator-level user credentials for the target system.
To configure agents remotely:
1. Select Configure→Configure or Repair Agents. The Step 1: Select Target Systems page appears.
NOTE: The Step 1: Verify Target Systems page appears if you select the targets before selecting
a tool.
2. Select target systems.
3. Click Next. The Step 2: Install Providers and Agents (Optional) page appears.
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