Using HP Insight Software from a Highly Available Central Management Server with Microsoft Cluster Service

2. In the Cluster Administrator window, on the left pane, right-click on the disk group containing the

Insight software components program files. For example, the name HA-VSE Group was used in this

paper. Select Move Group. Be sure that the group fails over to the other system, and that all of the

HA-VSE Group cluster resources come online.

3. After waiting a few minutes to ensure that the HP SIM service has restarted, connect to the HP SIM

service through a Web browser, using the network name you specified when creating the HP SIM

network name resource (VSE-CMS in this paper). The URL http://VSE-CMS:280 specifies the virtual

network name and the port of the HP SIM service.

Tip

You must always specify the port 280 in the URL of your Web browser to

connect to the HP SIM service. To learn more about connecting to HP SIM,

refer to the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide.

The Systems Insight Manager icon on the Windows desktop of each system

was created by the installation of HP SIM as a handy shortcut for a regular

standalone server only. This icon is no longer applicable at this point

because the HP SIM is clustered. The icon should be deleted from the

desktop of each system to avoid future confusion.

4. A security alert displays. Click OK. The Login window appears.

5. Be sure to log in with the appropriate username, password, and domain for your cluster. After you

have successfully logged in, the HP SIM home page appears.

TIP

IMPORTANT: Clustering allows any system in the cluster to own the virtual

group containing the Insight software resources. With the creation of a

virtual network name and IP address specific to the HP SIM service, clients

can connect to the service without knowing which system currently owns the

virtual group. When browsing to the virtual name for HP SIM rather than

the name of the server that owns the virtual group, a security certificate for

HP SIM is sent to your browser. If your browser is configured to warn about

invalid site certificates, a security alert displays when connecting to the HP

SIM virtual server (which was created earlier in this paper). This alert

indicates that the name you have connected to does not match the name on

the certificate. This is because the name on the certificate is the name of the

secondary system and not that of the virtual server. To learn more about the

browser security alert, refer to the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide

located on the HP Management CD (version 7.1 or greater).

6. Navigate to Options  Discovery. Select System Automatic Discovery task and click Edit. The Edit

Discovery page appears. Take a look at the Ping inclusion ranges list box (on the left side of the

right frame, near the bottom of the screen). Note that HP Systems Insight Manager automatically

generates a range for each of the IP addresses the current system has. Because one of these ranges

is based on the cluster heartbeat IP address (generally of the form 10.0.0.1), that range would not

be of any use, and you should remove it from the list in order to prevent future confusion. Be sure to

click OK.

7. Navigate to the Options  Protocol Settings  WMI Mapper Proxy. Check the Host list and ensure

that the cluster virtual name is used instead of any of the system names (delete the system name, if it

is used, and add the cluster virtual name).

8. Return to the Cluster Administrator.

9. Repeat steps 2 through 7 in the section “Validating the Installation” using the other system.