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10. Enter Windows login credentials. You must input a user name and password that allows HP SIM to

11. Click Run Now. After the task is completed, the Task Results page identifies which

configuration operations have succeeded and which have failed.

Setting up custom collections

You can also create private collections (optional) by manually selecting systems. For example, you

might want to group systems by location (servers on the seventh

floor) or by owner (finance

department systems). Each private collection displays a status icon representing the most critical status

within the group, enabling administrators to identify problem areas at a glance.

Credentials

In HP SIM, there are three different types of credentials:

• System Credentials. Credentials used by identification to access managed systems. These

credentials include WBEM, WS-MAN, and SSH credentials, Sign-in, SNMP community string,

and Single Sign-On credentials.

• Global Credentials. Global credentials are system credentials that apply to all systems.

• Trusted Systems. Credentials used to manage the public SSH keys, stored in the

known_hosts file, from the

CMS and to set trust relationships.

Authorizations

Only users with a valid user ID and password on the CMS can access and perform tasks on a

particular managed system or group of systems. Each user can perform tasks using the tools in a

toolbox authorized for that particular user. There are four default toolboxes in HP SIM including the

All Tools toolbox and the Monitor Tools toolbox. Users who are authorized to use the All Tools toolbox

can perform all administrative tasks and can change the state of managed systems. Occasional users

or non-experts should be authorized to use only the Monitor Tools toolbox. This paper assumes that

you have a small number of authorized users and use only the default toolboxes. Note that toolboxes

and authorizations can be customized for environments with larger numbers of users and different

security needs for different managed systems.

Secure access using a web browser

When you access HP SIM from a web browser, you must sign in using a secure sockets layer (SSL)

connection. Your user name and password for HP SIM is the same as your login credentials for the

Windows operating system running on the CMS. HP SIM uses operating system security and SSL to

ensure strong authentication and data encryption and to minimize the risk of unauthorized access to

the management console.

Managing HP ProLiant 100 series servers

The HP ProLiant 100 series servers do not support HP Insight Management Agents. Therefore, HP SIM

collects data from ProLiant 100 series servers through Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI),

which provides basic system inventory reporting. Not all data available in standard WMI is shown or

reported in HP SIM.

You should be able to view the following information:

• ROM-based SMBIOS tables populated by the ROM during Power On Self Test (POST)