Getting started with HP SIM 5.3 in a smaller Windows environment Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 3 HP SIM basics ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Product architecture..........................................................................................................................
Configuring the managed environment ......................................................................................... 20 Enabling automatic system discovery ............................................................................................ 20 Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign-in credentials ...................................................... 21 Configuring managed systems .....................................................................................................
Introduction HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is HP’s unified server and storage management application that assists you in managing all HP servers, storage, and system hardware within your IT environment. HP SIM brings enterprise-level benefits to IT environments ranging from small networks to large corporate networks.
Sam is an IT administrator in a small firm of lawyers. He manages 5 servers, 50 desktops, 2 storage arrays, 10 printers, and miscellaneous networking systems. He does not currently use management tools. If the lawyers have a problem with their systems, they quickly pick up the phone and call him. Sam does not think that his firm will invest in management tools and he is not sure that he has the time to learn the software.
Managed systems A managed system is any system in the management domain that communicates with the CMS. Managed systems can include servers, desktops, workstations, storage, printers, laptops, hubs, storage systems, SANs, management processors, or routers with an IP or IPX address. To get the full capabilities from HP SIM, ProLiant servers should have one or more management agents installed.
10. Enter Windows login credentials. You must input a user name and password that allows HP SIM to login to the target systems. Click Next. 11. Click Run Now. After the task is completed, the Task Results page identifies which configuration operations have succeeded and which have failed. Setting up custom collections You can also create private collections (optional) by manually selecting systems.
• Operating system-based information including MAC addresses, IP addresses, domain, operating system version and serial number, last boot time, current running processes, and disk information • Standard operating system driver information including network, and logical and physical drive storage (from the operating system point of view) • HP SIM also provides status polling of ProLiant 100 series servers Managing storage HP SIM has been significantly upgraded to manage storage devices it supports thro
For links to more information, including a technical white paper and an overview to HP Web Jetadmin, go to http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpcJAVA/offweb/vac/us/en/en/network_software/wja_sysinsight_manager.html. Managing clients The HP Client Manager Connector for HP SIM enables you to consolidate deployment and management of HP clients and servers within a single HP SIM console.
definitions are stored in a Version Control Repository on the CMS. You can configure the HP Version Control Repository Manager (HP VCRM) to automatically retrieve the latest software and firmware from http://hp.com. You can also schedule regular updates and regular automatic comparisons of the system software on a managed system with that in a selected baseline set. You are alerted of discrepancies so that you can use HP SIM to schedule an update of a system or groups of systems.
Installation overview and requirements in a Windows environment HP SIM is available for download from the HP (hp.com) website and ships at no extra charge with all ProLiant 300, 500, and 700 series servers, and StorageWorks products. The GUI is intuitive and easy to learn so you do not need extensive training to start using it. Figure 1 shows a representation of the HP SIM installation process. First, you must ensure that SNMP, MDAC2.
Windows Central Management Server • This section contains the minimum requirements for the Windows operating system that is used for the CMS.
Operating system Hardware Software Standard and Enterprise (x86) Browser software: The Central Management Server supports Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 International Server French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese (latest service pack available for each language). Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Networking Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with Service Pack 2 Firefox 2.0.0.16 Firefox 3.0.
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server with Service Pack 4 for x86 • Microsoft Windows NT4 with Service Pack 6 • Microsoft Windows Vista Client • Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 1or later • Microsoft Windows Virtual Server • VMware ESX v3.0.
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for x86, AMD64 and EM64T with Service Pack 2, and Itanimum-based systems • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for x86, AMD64 and EM64T with Service Pack 1, and Itanium-based systems • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for x86 with Service Pack 4, AMD64 and EM64T with Service Pack 4, and Itanium-based systems • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for United Linux 1.
• Any HP PA-RISC system • Any HP Itanium®-based system For Windows: • Any HP x86 system • Any HP x64 system For Linux: • Any HP x86 system • Any HP x64 system • Any HP Itanium-based system Software This software is not required, but if you want improved management capabilities, HP recommends that you install these components. For Windows: • OpenSSH Services 5.1p1 • ProLiant Support Pack 6.
Note: For optimum performance, the minimum resolution for the browser should be 1024 x 768. For HP-UX: • Firefox 1.5.0.12 • Firefox 2.0.0.4 For Linux: • Firefox 1.5.0.12 • Firefox 2.0.0.4 Note: For all Internet Explorer browsers, you must have the SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.0 browser security options enabled for HP SIM to work properly.
Installing HP SIM If you do not want to install a particular component at this time, use the Custom installation. You can re-run setup.exe at any time and use the Custom installation to load the component. Table 1 Installation Component Typical Installation Custom Installation System Management Homepage 9 9 Open SSH Services 5.
7. Under Select Installation Type, select Custom if you want to deselect a component or change individual component settings for the drive, installation directory, or program group. If you perform a Typical installation, the packages selected by the installer by default will be installed. Refer to the HP SIM Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft® Windows on the Management CD for assistance. 8. When you are prompted for your account credentials, enter your login password. Click Next. 9.
2. Enter the user credentials that you provided during the installation; the HP SIM GUI (Figure 2) appears. The System and Event Collections panel on the left side of the user interface is prepopulated with a number of default system and event collections. For a complete description of these collections, refer to the HP SIM User Guide in the HP SIM Information Library at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim. During the installation of MSDE, you might be asked to restart the system.
• Introduction. Describes the purpose of the First Time Wizard. You can cancel the First Time Wizard and disable the wizard from automatically starting when an administrative user signs in. • Managed Environment. Specifies all operating systems to be managed by the CMS. The selections made here configure HP SIM to show collections, tools, and reports only for managed environments that are selected.
HP SIM uses system automatic discovery to find and identify systems on the network. The System Automatic Discovery task is the default discovery task and is disabled by default. You can enable and configure the System Automatic Discovery task in the First Time Wizard, or by selecting Options->Discovery from the HP SIM menu. If the System Automatic Discovery task is enabled, it runs immediately when the First Time Wizard is finished to initially populate the HP SIM database.
4. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click [Next], or to return to the previous step, click [Previous]. Configuring managed systems The Configure Managed Systems page in the First Time Wizard enables you to configure managed systems as they are discovered and to specify parameters for running the Configure or Repair Agents. All steps are optional and can be configured from the HP SIM Options menu at a later time. To skip this step, click Next to go to the next First Time Wizard step.
12. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click [Next], or to return to the previous step, click [Previous]. Configuring privilege elevation on HP-UX From this page, you can enable privilege elevation for Linux, HP-UX, and ESX managed systems. This enables you to sign in as an unprivileged user and elevate the privilege to run on these operating systems. You can also configure privilege elevation from the HP SIM menu by selecting Options Security Privilege Elevation. 1.
First Time Wizard summary When you are finished entering information in the HP SIM First Time Wizard, review your selections on the Summary Page, and then click Finish to save them. If you enabled automatic discovery or initiated Run discovery after the wizard finishes, discovery runs when you exit the First Time Wizard.
3. Click Next. The Step 2: Install Providers and Agents (Optional) page appears. The credentials specified on this page are for a privileged account on the target system. Note: If you plan to Configure secure shell (SSH) access on a Windows target system, the account specified must be a member of the local Administrators group. For Windows targets using a domain account, the account is automatically added to this group if applicable.
Supported systems HP WBEM Provider HP ProLiant Agent OpenSSH Version Control Agent System Management Home Page Unknown 2.2.1.0 (32-bit) 8.2.0.0 (32-bit) 5.1p1-3 2.1.10.801 2.1.15.210 ProLiant systems with 32-bit Windows operating system (2003, 2008) 2.2.1.0 (32-bit) 8.2.0.0 (32-bit) 5.1p1-3 2.1.10.801 2.1.15.210 ProLiant systems with 64-bit Windows operating system (2003, 2008) 2.2.1.0 (64-bit) 8.2.0.0 (64-bit) 5.1p1-3 2.1.10.801 2.1.15.
5. The Step 4: Configure or Repair Agents page enables you to select options to configure the target system. The following options are available: • Configure WBEM / WMI. This section enables you to configure the target Linux, Windows or HP-UX system to send WBEM indications or events to HP Systems Insight Manager. For this section, the following must be considered: o Create subscription to WBEM events, so that WBEM events will be sent to the CMS.
Note: The indication will appear as an Informational Event in the Event List of HP SIM. Note: This is supported only on HP-UX and Windows managed systems with WBEM provider installed. o Use an HP SIM WBEM certificate (good for 10 years) rather than username/password to manage the system. This option deploys a WBEM certificate to the managed system and is only valid for HP-UX systems. o Configure a non-administrative account for HP SIM to access WMI data.
Note: Repairing the SNMP settings adds a Read Write community string to the target system only if one does not currently exist. This community string is unique for each system, is composed of over 30 characters to include letters and numbers, and is visible only to the user with administrator privileges for that system. This Read Write community string is required by the Web Agent to perform certain threshold setting capabilities.
For HP SIM on the target systems, this option sets the trust mode to Trust by Certificate and copies the HP SIM system certificate to the target system trusted certificate directory. This option enables HP SIM users to connect to the HP SMH using the certificate for authentication. You can configure SSO to management processors for Onboard Administrator and for iLO2. To configure SSO, select Set Trust Relationship.
If you select Configure secure shell (SSH) access for a Windows target system, the account you specify must be a member of the local Administrators group. For Windows targets using a domain account, the account is automatically added to this group. 8. From the Step 4: Enter credentials page, enter the following credentials. The credentials used in this step must work for all selected target systems. HP recommends using domain administrator credentials.
10. If the Management HTTP Server is installed on target systems, the login credentials are updated in the Management HTTP Server password file. Like other HP Systems Insight Manager tools, you can configure the Configure or Repair Agents tool to run on a schedule or manually. Only one instance of Configure or Repair Agents tool can run at a time.
2. Add each SMI CIMOM IP address to the System Automatic Discovery task or to the Creating a New Discovery task. See the HP SIM User Guide at http://docs.hp.com/en/index.html for more information. HP SIM discovers the storage systems after the next automatic discovery task. If you want to discover your storage systems immediately, run the discovery task as described in the “Running a Discovery Task” section of the HP SIM User Guide at http://docs.hp.com/en/index.html.
Glossary central management server (CMS) A system in the management domain that executes the HP SIM software. All central operations within HP SIM are initiated from this system. HP VCRM (Version Control Repository Manager) An HP agent that enables a customer to manage HP provided software stored in a user-defined repository. HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) The underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web. HTTPS is HTTP over SSL, a protocol that supports sending data securely over the Web.
Additional resources For additional information, refer to the resources detailed below. Resource description Web address HP SIM web site http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/ To download the latest version of HP SIM http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/download.html Migrating from Insight Manager™ 7 to HP SIM http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html Moving HP SIM to a New System http://h18004.www1.hp.