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

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Systems and event collections
Events are SNMP traps, WBEM indications, or other notifications from managed systems to alert
Systems Insight Manager of failures, passing thresholds, or other abnormalities.
Systems Insight Manager enables you to group systems and events by attributes or by selecting
individual systems using system collections. Systems Insight Manager comes with a standard set of
system collections that logically group systems and events based on information in the Systems Insight
Manager database, such as operating system, hardware platform, status, event type, and other
criteria. In addition, you can create your own collections that enable you to automatically select
systems or events from the database for specific tasks and monitoring actions. System collections are
dynamic. Any time a system reflects the criteria of an existing collection, it becomes available in that
collection.
To create a custom collection:
1. Click Customize in the System and Event Collections panel on the left side of the Systems Insight
Manager screen. The Customize Collections page appears.
The Customize Collections page enables you to delete, copy, move, or edit existing collections or
create new collections. It also enables the Set Properties… button.
2. Click New.
3. Choose one of the following:
– Select collection criteria (attributes), which are defined by logical operators and system
properties, such as IP address range, total system memory, operating system type, system
type, member, and so on. You can add as many criteria as needed to define your collection.
– Select individual systems.
– Create a combination of collections that contain both systems and event attributes.
4. After you define the collection, click Save As Collection. The collection appears in the System and
Event Collections tree on the left. If you save your collection under Private, then only the user who
is currently logged in can view it.
5. Test your new collection by selecting it from the System and Event Collections panel.
6. Select ConfigureConfigure or Repair Agents. The Configure or Repair Agents page appears.
Step through CRA to install and configure SNMP, WBEM and security on managed systems.
7. Select the collection or individual systems to be configured. If you created a custom collection in
step 1, select the same collection. The Install Providers and Agents (optional) page appears.
8. Input the required SNMP and security configuration information.
9. Enter the login credentials for the target systems. You must input a user name and password that
allows Systems Insight Manager to log in to the target systems. Click Next.
10. Click Run Now. After the task is completed, the Task Results page identifies which configuration
operations have succeeded and which have failed.
Credentials
• System credentials—Credentials used by identification to access managed systems. These
credentials include WBEM, WS-MAN, and SSH credentials, Sign-in, SNMP community string, VME,
and Single Sign-On credentials.
• Discovery task credentials—Credentials used by a discovery task that apply to all systems
discovered by that task.
• Global credentials—Credentials are system credentials that apply to all systems.