HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

2 Introduction
Online help
HP SIM provides an online help system that helps you understand management features. To view the online
help, click the question mark icon on any page or use the Help menu to view the online help.
HP SIM help categories
• Product overview Describes the features in HP SIM. See “Product overview” for more information.
• Getting started Describes procedures for how to begin using and administering HP SIM. See “Getting
started” for more information.
• Discovery and identification Describes procedures for creating and managing discovery tasks, including
identification, and managing hosts files, and discovery templates. See “Discovery and identification”
for more information.
• Users and authorizations Describes procedures for creating and managing users, user groups,
toolboxes, and authorizations. See “Users and authorizations” for more information.
• Directory services Describes procedures for configuring directory services and entering the distinguished
name of container objects. See “Directory Services” for more information.
• HP SIM credentials Describes procedures for configuring system and global credentials. See “HP SIM
credentials” for more information.
• Networking and security Describes procedures for networking and security, including setting up trust
relationships. See “Networking and security” for more information.
• Monitoring systems, clusters, and events Describes procedures for monitoring systems and events.
See “Monitoring systems, clusters, and events” for more information.
• Storage integration Describes procedures for discovering SNMP and SMI-S storage devices and
viewing information about them. See “Storage integration using SNMP” and “Storage integration using
SMI-S” for more information.
• Managing with tasks Describes procedures for managing systems and events by scheduling and
executing tasks. See “Managing with tasks” for more information.
• Tools that extend management Describes procedures for using HP SIM default tools. See “Tools that
extend management” for more information.
• Partner applications Describes partner applications and includes an overview of each application.
See “Partner applications” for more information.
• Reporting Describes procedures for creating and generating custom reports. See “Reporting” for
more information.
• Administering systems and events Describes how to manage and maintain HP SIM. See “Administering
systems and events” for more information.
• Troubleshooting Describes troubleshooting procedures for HP SIM. See “Troubleshooting” for more
information.
• Reference Includes database tables, Microsoft® Windows NT® error log messages, and service and
support information. See “Reference information” for more information.
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