HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

15 Administering systems and events
Users with administrative rights can administer HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). Administration of HP
SIM involves the following tasks:
• Configuring basic settings using the First Time Wizard
• Configuring and running automatic and manual discovery
• Identifying systems
• Managing hosts and template files
• Managing system types by creating, editing, and deleting SNMP and Desktop Management Interface
(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
• Managing toolboxes
• Managing authorizations
• Managing users
• 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 HP Performance Management Pack (PMP) administrative tools from HP SIM
• Configuring security settings
• Modifying identification through System Type Manager
• Managing system keys
NOTE: 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.
Related procedures
• Viewing the Audit Log
• Configuring the audit log file
• Creating new users
• Creating new toolboxes
• Creating new user groups
• Creating new authorizations
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