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: If discovery tasks are run out of order, errors are likely. Typical errors due to running
discovery tasks in an improper order include:
• Association errors For example, a server not associated with a management processor or
virtual machine not associated with a virtual machine host.
• Credentials errors Because discovery of systems can trigger additional discovery of associated
systems or management processors, if the correct credentials are not supplied for the associated
systems, their discoveries are likely to show errors. If you discover these associated systems
with a subsequent discovery task containing the proper credentials, they should then complete
successfully.
NOTE: Citrix Xen VMs discovered in category 5 will always return a discovery error unless the
Citrix Xen Host has been registered through Configure→Virtual Machine→Register Virtual
Machine Host.
If you have a small network, an alternate way of setting up your discovery tasks is to create a
single task with one IP address range and all of the required credentials for the systems in that
range. However, doing this can make it difficult to troubleshoot and diagnose errors if one or more
systems are not configured correctly.
Options on the Discovery page
Under the For all automatic discoveries section, the following options are available:
• Configure general settings Select this option to configure general settings that apply to all
discovery tasks.
• Manage hosts files Select this option to manage hosts files
• Configure global protocol settings Select this option to configure global protocol settings.
NOTE: To discover clusters correctly, you must enable SNMP with the correct security settings
on HP SIM on the target systems.
From the Discovery page, you can:
• Create a new discovery task Click New and the New Discovery section appears.
• Edit an existing discovery task Select a task from the table,and click Edit. The Edit Discovery
section appears.
• Enable or disable a discovery task Select a task and click Disable to disable the schedule
of an enabled task. If a task is disabled, the button changes to Enable. To resume automatic
execution of the task, click Enable.
• Delete an existing discovery task Select a task from the table and click Delete.
• View Task Results This button displays the task results for the current discovery task.
• Run a discovery task Select the task you want to run and click Run Now. When a task is
running, the Run Now button changes to a Stop button.
• Stop a discovery task from running Select the running task and click Stop.
See the Systems Insight Manager online help for more information on each of these options.
Discovery credentials
One of the best ways to configure credentials for your managed systems is to do so as part of a
discovery task. You can enter one or more sets of credentials. As each system is discovered, the
credentials listed in the discovery task will be tried on it, in order, until one set is found to work.
46 Discovery