HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

16 Administering systems and events
Users with administrative rights can administer HP SIM. Administration of HP SIM involves the following
tasks:
• Configuring basic settings using the First Time Wizard
• Managing system types by creating, editing, and deleting SNMP and DMI rules
• Setting global and single system protocol settings
• Configuring and running status polling tasks
• Configuring 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 such as installing software and firmware
• 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 PMP administrative tools from HP SIM
• Configuring security settings
• Managing system keys
You must be a user with administrative rights on a system to access the Options menu and perform HP SIM
administration tasks. Additionally, to configure users, authorizations, and toolboxes, you must have the
Allow this user to configure other users, authorizations and tool boxes option selected.
Events
Managing events in HP SIM includes the following tasks:
• Automatic Event Handling Enables you to manage automatic event handling tasks, create new
automatic event handling tasks, and configure e-mail and modem settings.
• Managing Tasks Enables you to view definitions, copy tasks, edit tasks, view task results, disable
or enable tasks, or delete existing Automatic Event Handling tasks.
See “Managing event handling tasks” for more information.
• Creating a New Task Enables you to create a new Automatic Event Handling task. Select
Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→New Task.
• E-mail Settings Enables you to set up the various e-mail settings needed because of an event
action. You can access the E-mail Settings page using one of the following methods:
• Select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→E-mail Settings.
• From the HP SIM introductory page, click e-mail in the Do this now to finish the installation
section.
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