Getting Started with HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 or Greater in a Smaller Windows Environment

You must have a storage system WBEM SMI-S provider installed and configured on a managed node

for Systems Insight Manager to discover SAN storage. This includes storage devices such as Fibre

Channel disk arrays, switches, tape libraries, or hosts (with Fibre Channel host bus adapters.)

See the Systems Insight Manager SMI-S Provider webpage,

http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim/providers, to

view the latest information regarding Systems Insight Manager support for a particular device. This

webpage offers information on obtaining, installing, and configuring SMI-S providers.

Installing SMI-S providers

Each storage vendor provides the SMI-S provider and installation instructions for its storage system.

The webpage referenced in the previous section provides information on obtaining SMI-S providers.

Also, consult the storage vendor website or representative for more information regarding their SMI-S

providers. For each storage system:

1. Verify that the applicable SMI-S provider is installed.

2. If the SMI-S provider is not installed, obtain and install it according to the vendor installation

instructions.

Verifying SSL

Systems Insight Manager requires that Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is enabled for the SMI-S provider in

order to discover and manage the storage system that the provider supports. Verify that SSL is

enabled for each SMI-S provider.

Configuring SMI-S providers

You might have to modify an SMI-S provider port number or password. Use the provider

documentation to perform these modifications.

For example, if two CIMOMs exist on the same host, you must configure them to use different ports to

communicate with the CMS.

Configuring Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems

After verifying that each storage system SMI-S provider is installed and configured, configure Systems

Insight Manager to discover the storage systems by performing the following steps:

1. Enter the user name and password for each provider SMI CIMOM in the Default WBEM settings

section on the Setting Global Protocols page.

2. Add each SMI CIMOM IP address to the System Automatic Discovery task or to the Creating a

New Discovery task. For more information, see the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide at

http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/sim/docs.

Systems Insight Manager discovers the storage systems after the next automatic discovery task. If you

want to discover your storage systems immediately, run the discovery task as described in the

“Running a Discovery Task” section of the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide at

http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/sim/docs.