Administrator's and User's Guide for SFM HP-UX 11i v1 April 2006

Administering Indications and Instances Using HP SIM
Creating Subscriptions and Viewing Indications Using HP SIM
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Creating Subscriptions and Viewing Indications
Using HP SIM
To view instances and events generated on a managed system, you must
create subscriptions. When you create subscriptions on the Central
Management Server (CMS) using HP SIM, indications are delivered to
the CMS whenever an event occurs on the managed system.
This section discusses the following topics:
• “Creating Subscriptions” on page 45
• “Viewing Indications” on page 56
NOTE The version numbers of the products shown in the figures may be
different from the version you are installing.
Creating Subscriptions
To create subscriptions using HP SIM, complete the following steps:
Step 1. Enter the following URL to launch HP SIM on your browser:
http://<system name>:<port number>/
The system name is the name of the CMS.
For example:
http://abc.com:280/
The HP SIM home page is launched.
Step 2. To create subscriptions, select Options-->Protocol Settings-->Global
Protocol Settings in the HP SIM Home page, as shown in Figure 3-1.