HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 User Guide

Contents

I Introduction...............................................................................................14

1 About this document.............................................................................15

User Guide.......................................................................................................................15

Systems Insight Manager User Guide layout..........................................................................15

2 Product overview..................................................................................16

Systems Insight Manager features.........................................................................................16

Basic concepts..................................................................................................................16

Discovery and identification............................................................................................16

Inventory......................................................................................................................17

Status info....................................................................................................................17

Reports........................................................................................................................17

Automatic event handling...............................................................................................17

Tools and tasks.............................................................................................................17

Collections...................................................................................................................18

Users and Authorizations................................................................................................18

Signing in and using the graphical user interface...................................................................18

Security Alerts in Internet Explorer and Firefox...................................................................18

Automatically signing in.................................................................................................19

Configuring the CMS................................................................................................19

Configuring the browser............................................................................................20

Behavior.................................................................................................................20

Guided tour of the Systems Insight Manager user interface.................................................21

Customizing views.........................................................................................................22

II Setting up Systems Insight Manager............................................................23

3 Setting up managed systems..................................................................24

Setting up Windows servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager..................................24

Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on a Systems Insight Manager Windows systems for the

first time.......................................................................................................................24

Requirements...........................................................................................................24

Installing the ProLiant Support Pack.............................................................................24

Setting up HP-UX servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager......................................27

Manually setting up an HP-UX managed system................................................................28

Configuring SNMP to send traps to the CMS................................................................28

Configuring SSH access............................................................................................28

Subscribing to WBEM indications/events:...................................................................28

Setting up Linux servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager........................................29

Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time..................................29

Configuring agents remotely using Configure or Repair Agents:...........................................29

Manually setting up Linux managed systems.....................................................................29

Installing and configuring SSH...................................................................................30

Configuring a Linux system to send SNMP traps............................................................30

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