Owner manual
Table Of Contents
- Systems Insight Manager 7.0 User Guide
- Table of Contents
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Setting up HP SIM
- 3 Setting up managed systems
- 4 Credentials
- 5 WMI Mapper Proxy
- 6 Discovery
- 7 Manage Communications
- 8 Automatic event handling
- 9 Users and Authorizations
- 10 Managed environment
- Part III HP SIM basic features
- 11 Basic and advanced searches
- 12 Monitoring systems
- 13 Event management
- 14 Reporting in HP SIM
- 15 HP SIM tools
- Part IV HP SIM advanced features
- 16 Collections in HP SIM
- 17 HP SIM custom tools
- 18 Federated Search
- 19 CMS reconfigure tools
- 20 Understanding HP SIM security
- 21 Privilege elevation
- 22 Contract and warranty
- 23 License Manager
- 24 Storage integration using SMI-S
- 25 Managing MSCS clusters
- 26 HP SIM Audit log
- 27 HP Version Control and HP SIM
- 28 Compiling and customizing MIBs
- A Important Notes
- System and object names must be unique
- Setting the Primary DNS Suffix for the CMS
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities menu options not available
- Virtual machine guest memory reservation size
- Insight Remote Support Advanced compatibility
- Database firewall settings
- Annotating the portal UI
- Security bulletins
- Validating RPM signatures
- Central Management Server
- Complex systems displaying inconsistency with the number of nPars within the complex
- Configure or Repair Agents
- Data collection reports
- B Troubleshooting
- Authentication
- Browser
- Central Management Server
- Complex
- Configure or Repair Agents
- Container View
- Credentials
- Data Collection
- Database
- Discovery
- iLO
- Linux servers
- Event
- Host name
- HP Insight Control power management
- Insight Control virtual machine management
- HP Smart Update Manager
- Systems Insight Manager
- Identification
- Installation
- License Manager
- Locale
- Managed Environment
- HP MIBs
- Onboard Administrator
- OpenSSH
- Performance
- Ports used by HP SIM.
- Privilege elevation
- Property pages
- Reporting
- Security
- Sign-in
- SNMP settings
- SSH communication
- System Page
- System status
- Target selection wizard
- Tasks
- Tools
- Upgrade
- UUID
- Virtual identifiers
- Virtual machines
- VMware
- WBEM
- WBEM indications
- WMI Mapper
- C Protocols used by HP SIM
- D Data Collection
- E Default system tasks
- Biweekly Data Collection
- System Identification
- Old Noisy Events
- Events Older Than 90 Days
- Status Polling for Non Servers
- Status Polling for Servers
- Status Polling for Systems No Longer Disabled
- Hardware Status Polling for Superdome 2 Onboard Administrator
- Data Collection
- Hardware Status Polling
- Version Status Polling
- Version Status Polling for Systems no Longer Disabled
- Check Event Configuration
- Status polling
- F Host file extensions
- G System Type Manager rules
- H Custom tool definition files
- I Out-of-the-box MIB support in HP SIM
- J Support and other resources
- Glossary
- Index
NOTE: HP SIM can be configured to use TCP as a ping, instead of ICMP, from the Global
Protocol Settings page.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
LDAP 3 is used during execution of a Directory Group tool to communicate with the configured
directory server to collect information about systems configured in the directory.
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
SOAP is used by partner applications to communicate with HP SIM. It is primarily XML over HTTPS.
Protocol functionality
The following table displays descriptions of management protocols displayed under Management
Protocols on the System Page which displays protocols that have responded when attempting
to identify the system.
NOTE: The CMS initiates the requests for all protocols except events.
Functionality when enabledDescriptionManagement standard
System identification, inventory, eventsA common definition of management
information for systems, networks,
applications, and services.
CIM
System identificationA protocol using XML over HTTP to
exchange CIM information; part of the
WBEM suite of standards.
CIM-XML
System identification, management tool
launch, agent configuration
HTTP is another primary protocol used
to acquire data about managed
systems during identification. HTTP is
not a secure protocol and can be
easily viewed on the network. The
secure version of HTTP is called HTTPS
and is described later.
HTTP and HTTPS
Provides system reachability (ping)
check during system discovery and
before other operations
ICMP is a required protocol tightly
integrated with IP. ICMP messages are
delivered in IP packets and are used
for out-of-band messages related to
network operation.
HP SIM can use ICMP messages to
ping a managed system. However,
some routers block ICMP messages so
HP SIM provides an alternative ping
using TCP.
ICMP
System identification, inventory and
events
Part of the SNMP specification, the
MIB is a model of the information to
be managed through SNMP. It is
equivalent to the CIM defined by
WBEM.
MIB
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) 203