Instruction Manual

15 Administering systems and events
Users with full configuration rights can administer HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). Administration of
HP SIM involves the following tasks:
• Configuring basic settings using the First Time Wizard
• Configuring and running automatic and manual discovery
• Identifying systems
• Managing hosts and template files
• Managing system types by creating, editing, and deleting SNMP and Desktop Management Interface
(DMI) rules
• Setting global and single system protocol settings
• Configuring and running status polling tasks
• Configure automatic event handling by creating and editing tasks, deleting events, and configuring
e-mail, modem, event filter, SNMP trap, and status change event settings
• Configuring cluster and system settings
• Running data collection tasks
• Customizing the Home page options
• Selecting and maintaining default HP Version Control Repository Manager for advanced searches and
tasks like installing software and firmware
• Managing toolboxes
• Managing authorizations
• Managing users
• Monitoring the Audit Log
• Creating, editing, exporting, importing, and synchronizing server certificates
• Creating, deleting, exporting, and importing trusted system certificates
• Setting up managed systems
• Setting system properties for multiple systems
• Suspending or resuming system monitoring for multiple systems
• Specifying the HP Version Control Repository Manager
• Running HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP) administrative tools from HP SIM
• Backing up and restoring the HP SIM database on Windows, HP-UX, and Linux systems
• Configuring security settings
• Modifying identification through System Type Manager
• Managing system keys
NOTE: You must be a user with full configuration rights on a system to access the Options menu and
perform HP SIM administration tasks.
Related procedures
• Viewing the Audit Log
• Configuring the audit log file
• Creating new users
• Creating new toolboxes
• Creating new user groups
• Creating new authorizations
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