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Configuring the managed system software using the Configure or Repair Agents feature from the CMS.......33
Sending test traps and indications......................................................................................................33
8 Automatic event handling......................................................................35
Example automatic event handling tasks.............................................................................................35
9 Users and Authorizations.......................................................................36
Users..............................................................................................................................................36
User groups...............................................................................................................................36
Toolboxes.......................................................................................................................................36
10 Managed environment.........................................................................37
III Systems Insight Manager basic features......................................................38
11 Basic and advanced searches...............................................................39
Basic search....................................................................................................................................39
Advanced search.............................................................................................................................39
Hierarchical displays...................................................................................................................39
Save as.....................................................................................................................................39
View.........................................................................................................................................39
Searching for tools...........................................................................................................................40
12 Monitoring systems..............................................................................41
Viewing system collections................................................................................................................41
Pages displaying system status......................................................................................................41
Viewing health status from the table or icon view............................................................................42
Viewing health status in the tree view............................................................................................42
System status types......................................................................................................................42
Software status types...................................................................................................................43
WBEM operational status types....................................................................................................43
Monitoring clusters...........................................................................................................................44
System properties.............................................................................................................................44
Example of setting system properties...................................................................................................45
Setting customer company and contact information individually........................................................45
Example of setting system properties for multiple systems.......................................................................45
13 Event management..............................................................................47
Event management configuration.......................................................................................................47
Example - Creating a paging task based on e-mail notification..............................................................47
Examples of e-mail pages.................................................................................................................48
Example of a standard e-mail page..............................................................................................49
Example of a Pager/SMS page....................................................................................................49
Example of an HTML page..........................................................................................................50
Example - Creating a task to send an e-mail when a system reaches a critical state...................................50
Example - Creating a task to delete all cleared events...........................................................................52
14 Reporting in Systems Insight Manager....................................................53
Standard reports..............................................................................................................................53
New Reports..............................................................................................................................53
Managing reports.......................................................................................................................53
Snapshot Comparison.................................................................................................................54
Enhanced Reports.......................................................................................................................54
Predefined reports.................................................................................................................55
Run Enhanced reports............................................................................................................55
New Enhanced reports..........................................................................................................55
Editing Enhanced reports........................................................................................................55
E-mailing reports...................................................................................................................56
Deleting reports.....................................................................................................................56
15 Systems Insight Manager tools..............................................................57
Target selection...............................................................................................................................57
Scheduling tools..............................................................................................................................57
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