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Systems Insight Manager 7.1 User GuideHP Part Number: 601823-006Published: August 2012Edition: Edition 2

Ports used by HP SIM...177Privilege elevation

The SSO certificate is created during the upgrade. To reestablish the trust relationships with themanaged systems you might need to import the newly g

Ways of enabling online modeThere are two ways of enabling online mode. One is through Proxy settings, and the other isdirectly.In the former method,

0 — Disable• Proxy settings:The proxy host and port can be configured using the below properties. The proxy settings canbe cleared off or removed if b

PasswordsPassword fields displayed by HP SIM do not display the password. Passwords between the browserand the CMS are transmitted over SSL.Password w

Internet zone, causing improper operation. Ensure systems are being placed into the correct Internetzone when browsing. You might need to configure In

account. For automatic sign-in to HP SIM, a domain account must be used. On UNIX, HP SIM isinstalled and runs as daemons running as root.Windows Cygwi

NOTE: On a Windows system, the operating system account must have administrator-level accesson the CMS for all of the commands to work properly.How to

• The CMS requires a user name and password to access WMI data on Windows systems. Bydefault, a domain administrator account can be used for this, but

IMPORTANT: When using the Trust by certificate option, the HP SIM SSL certificate must beredistributed if a new SSL certificate is generated for HP SI

5. For SSH, turn on the option to accept SSH connections only from specified systems. SelectOptions→Security→Trusted Systems, click SSH Host Keys, and

Check Event Configuration...195Status polling...

21 Privilege elevationPrivilege elevation enables users without root privileges to run tools requiring root privileges onHP-UX, Linux, and VMware ESX

Enable secure communicationHP SIM ensures that the user certificate contained in the smart card is trusted by a valid and knownCertificate Authority (

Smart cards and Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP)HP SIM does not directly communicate with the Cryptographic Service provider rather it leveragesth

22 Contract and warrantyThe Contract and Warranty Status is available when you have a Windows CMS, and the HP InsightRemote Support Pack is installed.

Collecting contract and warranty dataThe following tasks are used to collect contract and warranty data:• Initial contract and warranty collection.Thi

• End DateThe end date of an active contract. If no end date is available, this field is blank.• Contract StatusThe possible values are:◦ A: Active◦ F

• ExtensionThe number of days that this warranty has been extended.• Wty: HP HW Maintenance Onsite SupportThe warranty start and end date is listed fo

Monitoring contract and warranty statusContract and warranty status is shown by the following status types:Table 9 Contract and Warranty statusDescrip

23 License ManagerLicense Manager enables you to view and manage product licenses within the HP SIM user interface.To access additional information ab

NOTE: The new management processor license collection is supported on management processorand management processor devices. Deployment is supported on

Part I Introduction

Table 11 License types (continued)DescriptionLicense TypeOffers full, unlimited functionality for a limited time and aspecific number of seats. The li

Table 12 License types reported by management processor products (continued)DescriptionLicense Typethe product to run. Demo keys can authorize use for

2Key. The license keys received from the target systems. Each key retrieved from a system ison a separate line. Some products have more than one licen

Assigning and Unassigning licensesHP SIM enables you to assign and Un assign product licenses for plug-ins, if applicable for thatplug-in, and to assi

Add License page1Select the complete key string and press Carl + C to copy it.Position the cursor in any of the five fields forming the input box and

Assigning or Applying Licenses page1System NameThe name of the system where the task was executed.2Serial NumberA number the licensing product chooses

License unlicensed systems (optional) page1System license statusDisplays the status of system licenses, such as Not licensed, or assigned duration lic

24 Storage integration using SMI-SAbout storage systemsStorage systems are SAN-attached Fibre Channel disk arrays, switches, tape libraries, or hosts(

• Receive storage system events and associate them with the system that generated the event(through Command View) running on a system, or from a tape

◦ Firmware version◦ Controller characteristics• RAID detailsRAID type◦◦ RAID configuration• SAN and NASNetwork addresses◦◦ Manufacturer◦ Model• IS and

1 About this documentUser GuideHP Systems Insight Manager provides this user guide to help you understand management features.HP SIM User Guide layout

WBEMWBEM is a set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify themanagement of enterprise computing environments. WBEM include

HP SIM displays storage systems as follows:• Internal drivesThese systems must appear in the Properties pages and the inventory database as components

Configuring the SNMP trap destination on Windows 2000Procedure 27 Configuring the SNMP trap destination on Windows 20001. Select Start→Settings→Contro

3. Select (4) to import the management server's certificate into the CVAE provider's truststore forevent indications. Enter the following:•

Viewing storage system collectionsHP SIM enables you to view storage system information for collections and individual storagesystems.Procedure 31 Vie

• Storage Ports—All Storage HostsLists port information for all storage host HBAs.• Storage Ports—All Storage SwitchesLists port information for all s

25 Managing MSCS clustersCluster Monitor is a core component of HP SIM, and adds the ability to monitor and managemulti-node clusters. Cluster Monitor

Cluster fieldsTable 13 Cluster fieldsDescriptionNameName or alias for the clusterNameStatus of the cluster: Normal (the cluster condition is functioni

Resource fieldsTable 16 Resource fieldsDescriptionNamePhysical or logical entity that is capable of being owned by a node, broughtonline and taken off

the Major threshold value. It remains in the Major range until it falls to or below the Major resetvalue. The Minor and Major reset thresholds behave

2 Product overviewHP SIM features• Automatic discoveryAutomatically discovers and identifies systems attached to the network. Use discovery filtersto

Disk polling rateThe Disk polling rate determines how often Cluster Monitor checks the free disk space as reportedby the appropriate Insight Managemen

26 HP SIM Audit logHP SIM logs all tasks performed by all HP SIM users on all systems. The information is stored inthe Audit Log file on the CMS. Seve

104611: 2008-04-24 11:17:45 PDT,JOB,PROGRESS,START,JOB,44641_cup12.hp.com,VERBOSE,partner,,, Running Tool:ls Expanded Command Line:ls Targets: cu

27 HP Version Control and HP SIMAbout the Version Control AgentThe HP VCA is an Insight Management Agent installed on a system that enables you to vie

About the Version Control Repository ManagerHP VCRM is an HP Insight Management Agent that manages a directory of HP software andfirmware components.

About software repositoriesUpdating ProLiant Support Packs and components using HP VCRM from a single or multiplerepositories saves time and is key to

28 Compiling and customizing MIBsHP SIM; provides the capability of managing systems through SNMP and by receiving incomingSNMP trap events. HP SIM sh

directory by default so any MIB that you intend to register should be copied to the <BASE>\mibsdirectory. While mcompile does provide some capab

In this example, TRAP-TYPE and sysName are readily resolved as in the example above.hpSwitchBladeType2-Mgmt is resolved by mcompile checking HP-SWITCH

The initial command to register the file uses the .cfg extension, but all subsequent commandsrefer to the file by its .mib extension.IMPORTANT: mxmib

NOTE: HP SIM uses several management protocols to communicate to managed systems. Theprotocols used, include WBEM/WMI, SNMP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH and WS-MA

--#CATEGORYThis provides a categorization of the trap for ease of viewing and use in forming HP SIM lists. Youcan use predefined categories or, if non

• SYSTEM AND ENVIRONMENTAL• Tandem EMS Events• TruCluster Events• Unassigned• Unisys Configuration Agent Events• UNKNOWN• WYSE Events• ZESA• ZHRM--#MS

--#SEVERITY CRITICAL--#TIMEINDEX 99--#MSG_FORMATTER "$V1V#Computer: # $V3V#Drive Status: # $V9V#Serial Number: #"::= 3029The e-mail or pager

Fields can be modified as follows:• The Description field is the long description stating the nature of the trap. The Description fieldis used on the

A Important NotesSystem and object names must be uniqueSystem and object names must be unique in HP SIM.For example, the name of a Virtual Connect Dom

Database firewall settingsWhen using MSDE (or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition), Microsoft SQL, or Oracledatabase server located on a remote

To view the EULA, use a text editor to open the eula_license.xml file, and search forthird-party software .HP addresses security bulletins for the sof

This creates a temporary directory. For example, makeself-32350-20091024210345, is wherethe HP SIM RPMs will be located. You can use the rpm --checksi

Configure or Repair AgentsConfigure or Repair Agents tasks that combine Critical, Unknown, and Unmanaged targetedsystems appear to hang at 0% but will

B TroubleshootingAdobeHP SIM requires Adobe 10 plugin on remote browsing machines. Adobe 11 is not compatiblewith HP SIM and might produce errors.Agen

Tools and tasksTools are actions you perform on the managed systems from within HP SIM's GUI or CLI. Manytools ship with HP SIM, but you can also

This parameter is a global setting and is currently configured to 60 seconds. For all practicalpurposes this interval is sufficient. However if there

If you receive a Page Not Found browser error when launching HP Insight Control performancemanagement tools from within HP SIM, the CMS name link migh

4. Click OK until all dialog boxes are closed.• The company DNS servers could be having problems.HP recommends that you contact your company's ne

C7000 containing 15 BL servers (single sided) and 1 Double dense server = 17 serversC7000 containing 10 Double dense servers = 20 serversTherefore wit

a system is listed in this table; even one with no working credentials is listed with an Access Typeof None.To resolve this issue, restart HP SIM to r

-------------------------------------------------------------If you see that data collection failed because of a WBEM connection, it might be caused b

DiscoveryA managed system must not have Hyper-V host, SMI-S Storage CIMOM proxy, and SCVMMinstalled together. If they are all installed, HP SIM will n

-------------------------------------------------------------If an HP Logical Server that is created in Insight Dynamics is given the same name as the

complex or the management processor; the reason is the partition still has vPar defined within thepartition.iLODeployment to an iLO with Trust Platfor

5. Select Toolbox is enabled.6. Under Show Tools in Category, select Configuration Tool from the dropdown list.7. Select Delete Events and Clear Event

To download, go to http://www.hp.com/go/firefox.• For Linux:Firefox 3.0.10 or laterNOTE: Browser settings:• For all Windows Internet Explorer browsers

default, daisy chained enclosures are displayed as c7000 enclosure models. As a result, whenc7000 and c3000 enclosures are daisy chained, and the Onbo

After you have selected the Install Linux PSP or ESX agents and Register VM host options in aConfigure or Repair Agents task for ESX 3.5 U4 or later,

NOTE: This applies to both x86 and x86_64 if the user elects to install the XWindows support.NOTE: These must be the 32-bit version even under x86_64

• Ensure WMI is enabled and running on all Windows target servers.• For Linux, ensure the SSH port is not blocked.• In some rare cases, external stora

the VMware ESX Host subtype, the WBEM cimserver on the ESX host must be up and workingcorrectly. There are many ways to set these credentials:• Global

InstallationHP-UX install/execution of partner plug-ins (for example, HP Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity)might fail due to failed communication w

When a subscription license for a particular product has expired, license manager's opening tablewill still show that product has no system limit

Onboard AdministratorWhen an Onboard Administrator system is deleted, health status of the bare metal server systemsremain stale. ProLiant OA must be

1. The wbemportlist.xml file used by HP SIM must be altered to add the additional oralternate WBEM port to be used. The file is located in C:\Program

-------------------------------------------------------------The Property pages for the VMWare ESX (Non-Embedded) operating system are not availabledu

IMPORTANT: Automatic sign-in fails if the SPN registered more than once. If you changethe name of the HP SIM service account, you must first delete th

2. Restart Windows SNMP service.3. Start the HP SIM service.SSH communicationDomain support for SSH communication:• Hyper-V systemsSSH communication b

ToolsThe message /tmp/Acmd42947.bat[26]: /usr/dt/bin/dtterm: not found mightappear when running the following tools on HP-UX 11.31:• Retrieve Bastille

00010203-0405-0607-0809-101112131415UniqueIdentifier in SIM03020100-0504-0706-0809-101112131415Virtual Connect Enterprise ManagerUnable to browse to V

Table 18 Minimal versions (continued)VersionProduct(see supported server matrix for Virtual Connect)Server ROM8.1ProLiant Support Pack / SNMP agents2.

events. If you do not unsubscribe for the WBEM events, HP SIM will no longer receive indicationsfrom the managed system.184 Troubleshooting

C Protocols used by HP SIMHP SIM uses many different management protocol standards. This capability enables HP SIM toprovide management support for a

community string specified for that system in HP SIM match. The community string, "public," is acommonly used default. However, you can spec

Without HTTPS enabled, HP SIM does not discover any WBEM-based features on a system. Supportfor non-HP systems has been expanded starting with HP SIM

Functionality when enabledDescriptionManagement standardProvides system reachability (ping)check during system discovery andbefore other operationsICM

Functionality when enabledDescriptionManagement standardIdentification, inventory, and eventsA DMTF standard for exchangingmanagement information usin

Failures encountered during automatic sign-in are logged as normal sign-in failures in both theaudit log and the event log. If automatic sign-in is no

D Data CollectionAfter HP SIM collects data initially during the identification process, you can schedule a DataCollection task to specify systems and

Bi-weekly data collectionThe Bi-Weekly Data Collection task runs the Overwrite existing data set (for detailed analysis)option on all systems in the s

E Default system tasksPolling tasks track the health status of systems in associated collections. Hardware status pollingmust occur periodically to de

NOTE: If you discover more than 500 systems, HP suggests you change the interval tosomething greater than 10 minutes (for example, 15 minutes for ever

Old Noisy EventsIncludes events that are transient and happen frequently, but do not generally indicate hardwarefailures. For example, link up, link d

Version Status Polling for Systems no Longer DisabledThis task runs the software version tool when a system changes from a disabled state to an enable

F Host file extensionsHosts files are used during discovery to manually add multiple systems to the HP SIM database.Hosts files typically contain IP a

# Sorted by: IP address# Date: 28-Mar-00 2:29:31 PM# Author: administratorThe system EngProliant uses all current defaults. There are no additional co

Default valuesIf a parameter is missing in the hosts file, the default is applied. The following lists the parametersthat can be used in hosts files:T

Table 22 Hosts file default parameters (continued)DescriptionValueKeywordRead only (Default)PublicSNMP_MON<Community String >No default<Commu

© Copyright 2010, 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Legal NoticesConfidential computer software. Valid license from HP required for posses

To speed the search process, as you enter system information in the search box, a dropdownlist appears listing systems that begin with the text you ar

G System Type Manager rulesSystem Type Manager enables you to extend HP SIM's SNMP-based discovery so that it is ableto identify new types of sys

H Custom tool definition filesCustom tool definition files are XML files that describe how HP SIM should run tasks based on aprogram, script, or UTL a

Table 24 MSA-specific attributesDescriptionSyntax1AttributeSpecifies an MSA command, theparameters for the command, and anexecution node on which the

Table 25 WLA-specific attributes (continued)DescriptionSyntax1AttributeAn optional parameterized string thatprovides a way for web-launch<target-fo

Table 27 Global attribute parametersDescriptionParameterJob ID for the task being executed%tName of the user running this task%uName of the user this

Table 29 Multiple selected target parameters (not supported for Custom Command Tools)DescriptionParameterRepeated pattern (only repeats if a current s

Table 31 Defined name valuesDescriptionNames values32 character stringproduct-name24 character numberProduct-versionInsert a separator line in the men

Table 33 Web-launch tools (continued)DescriptionNames valuesthe tool'sURL into aworkspace;instead,load theURL into thespecifiedframe.Tool Filteri

• Two adjacent period characters are interpreted as if they delimited the number zero, so"1.0.3" is equal to "1..3".• A beginning

Table 35 Environment Variables (continued)DescriptionNames valuesBased on the MAC address count, %d is an integer thatreferences the actual MAC addres

Part II Setting up HP SIM

Table 36 New Command Line Tool parameter entry guidelines (continued)Entry guidelinesParameter string assignmentData entry required?Parameter fieldcom

I Out-of-the-box MIB support in HP SIMThe following table represents the key MIBs that ship with HP SIM. Those MIBs that are marked aspreloaded are re

Table 37 MIBs supported in HP SIM (continued)Pre-loadedSupportsMIB nameXcisco productscisco-port-security-mib.mibXcisco productscisco-process.mibXcisc

Table 37 MIBs supported in HP SIM (continued)Pre-loadedSupportsMIB nameXSAN Appliancecpqsanapp.mibXcpqsanevent.mib SAN ApplianceXHP Proliant Storagecp

Table 37 MIBs supported in HP SIM (continued)Pre-loadedSupportsMIB nameXSWCChs_agent.mibXLSF productlsf001.mibXMSA2000 Array(HPMSA)msa2000traps.mibXHP

Table 37 MIBs supported in HP SIM (continued)Pre-loadedSupportsMIB nameXTandem's Subsystem Control Facility(SCF)zsmp.mibXTandem SNMP Trap Multipl

J Support and other resourcesRelated documentsDocumentation and supportFor support, software updates, and additional information on HP SIM and other p

GlossaryAadministrativerights userA user who is authorized for the All Tools toolbox on all systems, including the CMS. This typeof user has been give

cluster A parallel or distributed computing system made up of many discrete systems that form a single,unified computing resource. Clusters vary in th

event Information sent to certain users that something in the managed environment has changed. Eventsare generated from SNMP traps. HP SIM receives a

3 Setting up managed systemsSetting up managed systems involves installing the required Management Agents software andconfiguring the supported protoc

to manage all HP server platforms. HP SIM can also be extended to deliver unparalleled breadthof system management with plug-ins for HP storage, power

managementprotocolA set of protocols, such as WBEM, HTTP, or SNMP, used to establish communication withdiscovered systems.Minor status Status informat

The server deployment is installed separately from HP SIM. It requires a license for each servermanaged. You must register your server deployment prod

See also enclosure.Shared ResourceDomainA collection of compartments—all of the same type—that share system resources. The compartmentscan be nPartiti

subnet On TCP/IP networks, subnets are all systems whose IP addresses have the same prefix. Forexample, all systems with IP addresses that start with

system statuspanelThe section of the GUI on the left of the screen that displays status information and system orevent alarms.system type One of 12 su

user group A group of users defined on the CMS operating system that has been added to HP SIM. Membersof the user group in the operating system can si

IndexAabout, 144, 145default polling tasks, 192searches, 48storage solutions (SNMP), 127, 130version control agent, 143accessingautomatic event handli

communicationerrors, 160community strings, 51complexdeleting, 162discovering, 162System Page, 162Configure or Repair Agents, 14not starting, 162Window

disabling, 39editing, 39discovery taskscreating, 37deleting, 37disabling, 37editing, 37enabling, 37general settings, 37running, 37stopping, 37disk cap

3. Select Install Linux PSP or ESX Agents to install Linux PSP and ESX Agents which are a collectionof SNMP agents used by HP SIM to gather informatio

temperature graph, 169HP Insight Control virtual machine management, 166HP Insight Dynamics, 166HP Insight Remote Support, 175HP Insight Remote Suppor

events, 56hosts files, 37licenses, 118SSH keys, 14Matrix infrastructure orchestrationdiscovering, 169McDATA 4Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystemassociati

thresholds, 138response time, 160ROM BIOS, 181RPM Package Manager toolsno longer work, 180rulesSNMP, 200System Type Manager, 200runningcustom tools, 7

system monitoringresume, 54suspend, 54system page, 131, 185, 190protocols, 187system propertiesexamples, 55set for multiple systems, 55system resource

XXP P500WBEM indications, 183xw25p Blade Workstationidentifying, 169234 Index

◦ Send a sample WBEM / WMI indication to this instance of HP SIM to test that eventsappear in HP SIM in the Event List or All Event User Interface for

NOTE: If you configure only HP-UX systems with default SNMP installations, youdo not need to set this option. HP-UX enables read by default (get-commu

NOTE: For this option to work, the user name and password provided in Step 4:Enter credentials must be an administrative level account. For Linux or H

NOTE: Do not set this option if you have Insight Management Agents 7.2 or laterinstalled.NOTE: If the remote system is running HP-UX, this option is n

14. Click Run Now or click Schedule to run this task at a later time. The Task Results page appears.If the Management HTTP Server is installed on targ

Setting up HP-UX servers to be managed by HP SIMProcedure 3 Setting up HP-UX managed systems1. Understand the basic managed system software for HP-UX.

ContentsI Introduction...121 About this document...

Manually setting up an HP-UX managed systemAlthough chapters 4-7 explain how to finish configuring managed systems from the HP SIM GUI,this section de

2. Verify that SysFaultMgmt provider is installed.Depending on the System Fault Manager configuration, run the following:cimprovider –lm SFMProviderMo

Installing and configuring SSHProcedure 5 Installing and configuring SSH on a Linux system1. Verify that SSH is installed on the managed system:rpm -q

6. If the HP Server Management Drivers and Agents daemons are installed on your system, startthem:/etc/init.d/hpasm startSetting up Linux servers to b

4 CredentialsIn HP SIM, credentials are used to enable the CMS to communicate with managed systems, throughWBEM, WS-MAN, SSH, and SNMP. However, the S

15.3.110.117 15.3.105.51 15.3.110.113 --> <nodelist> <node name="system1"

5 WMI Mapper ProxyWindows systems use a variation on the WBEM management protocol called WMI. For HP SIMto communicate with Windows systems, the WBEM

6 DiscoveryDiscovery is the process of finding systems in the management domain so that they can be managedfrom the CMS by HP SIM. HP SIM can automati

4. Physical ServersThis discovery task is for discovery of physical servers (blade servers and standalone servers).The management processors for these

• Enable or disable a discovery taskSelect a task and click Disable to disable the schedule of an enabled task. If a task is disabled,the button chang

Discovery of Gen8 servers...407 Manage Communications..

matches the current filter. If discovery filters are disabled, automatic discovery discovers systemsaccording to the General Settings for All Discover

7 Manage CommunicationsUse the Manage Communications feature to troubleshoot communication problems between theCMS and targeted systems. For each fail

Sending test traps and indicationsTo verify that SNMP traps and WBEM indications can be sent, send test traps and indications.You can send test traps

8 Automatic event handlingAutomatic event handling enables you to define an action that HP SIM performs when an event isreceived. Users who want to ac

Example automatic event handling tasksHP SIM ships with three example automatic event handling tasks that are disabled by default.When the Automatic E

9 Users and AuthorizationsHP SIM enables you to configure authorizations for specific users or user groups. Authorizationsgive the user access to view

10 Managed environmentThe Managed Environment feature enables you to select the operating systems that you will manage.There are four options: Windows

Part III HP SIM basic features

11 Basic and advanced searchesBasic searchThe Search feature enables you to quickly retrieve details about a system using its name or commonsystem att

ViewWhen you click View, the results of the search appear below the search frame. This functionalityenables you to preview the results of the search b

Editing Enhanced reports...66E-mailing reports...

12 Monitoring systemsViewing system collectionsIn HP SIM monitoring systems involves HP SIM polling Insight Management Advisor or firmwareon the manag

• Property pagesThe Property page Status tab displays WBEM properties that help determine the status of thetarget system, such as determining memory s

Table 3 Health status types (continued)DescriptionStatus typeStatus iconThe system has a potential problem or is in a state that might becomea problem

WBEM operational status typesHP SIM reports WBEM operational status for storage and server elements, such as storage switchports and filled memory slo

shared cluster collections from the cluster collection view. Users can manage their own privatecollections, as well as:• Save collectionsClick Save As

After setting the Ignore status on the components, the change will not be reflected until after thenext status polling task runs.Example of setting sy

13 Event managementEvents are typically sent to the CMS from agents running on the managed systems. However, someevents are generated directly from th

• Status Change Event SettingsEnables you to control if a status change event is generated when health status changes. Toaccess, select Options→Events

13. Select Send e-mail.a. In the To address field, enter the e-mail address to which you want the notification sent(multiple addresses can be added so

User Action: Replace the storage system side panel.Status: sidePanelRemovedExample of a Pager/SMS pageFrom: Doe, JohnSent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 5

Dependencies...97Warning...

Where quanit1 is the system name.Example - Creating a task to send an e-mail when a system reaches acritical stateThe following instructions set up an

d. In the Message Format field, select from the following formats based on the encodingpreference of the recipient:• Standard. This default message fo

10. Click OK to save the collection.11. Then select systems from the Search dropdown list.12. From the first selection box (criteria selection), selec

14 Reporting in HP SIMStandard reportsStandard reports are shipped with HP SIM. The reports are based on common user scenarios anddo not need any addi

Format for generated report:◦ HTML (Recommended for viewing)Enables viewing an existing report in HTML format.◦ XMLEnables viewing an existing report

The reporting engine main page contains the Reports by Product table that displays the productsregistered with HP SIM along with the available reports

New Enhanced reportsA report configuration is a customer-defined set of preferences that pulls specified criteria from thedatabase tables and places i

If you click OK, the report is deleted and the product and report page is refreshed to show thecorrect status of the reports.Standard reports 67

15 HP SIM toolsTarget selectionTargets are systems that a tool acts upon. Targets can be single systems, collections, or groups ofsystems that are cho

• Delete a task• Stop an executing task• Track task statusTask information is available by selecting one of the following:• Tasks & Logs→View All

Strong security...106Configuring managed syst

Part IV HP SIM advanced features

16 Collections in HP SIMCollections in HP SIMSystems and events are grouped into collections based on information from the HP SIM database.After a col

• Run a system search and save the search criteria as the attributes defining a collection.Saving a collection from the Advanced Search pageFor more i

Because collections by attribute use a database query, collections that are complex take moresystem resources every time they are accessed. Keeping co

set properties on members of these collections. Setting properties on systems that might not be partof the collection in the future would be of very l

There are two instances of SystemC in the view of the hierarchy because CollectionC is thesame throughout the application. Any place that CollectionC

a certain collection, and that collection is made not visible, then the task will not run onthat collection. You can change the visibility setting at

– Unknown– Informational• Default View propertyWhen you select a collection in the System and Event Collections panel, the contents of thatcollection

17 HP SIM custom toolsGeneral conceptsCustom tools are tools that can be created by the user to run on the CMS or on target systems. Forexample:• Remo

Table 8 Tool types (continued)DescriptionNameCMS uses SSH to send one or more files to the targetsystem, which then executes the tool. An example of a

About storage security using SNMP...130Discovery and identification..

• 5, Critical• 100, InformationalNOTICEQUERYNAME. The collection name based on how the notice was generated. This valuecan say one of the following:•

IF, RELATEDDEVICECOUNT = 2 Then, RELATEDDEVICEIP0=111.111.111.111 RELATEDDEVICEIP1=222.222.222.222RELATIONSHIP%d. The relationship string with

NOTE: When using the %i parameter, the current selection index (1, 2, 3, and so on) is substitutedfor this parameter during the substitution process.I

Run Now/ScheduleUse to run the tool immediately or to schedule the tool to run (if the tool can be scheduled). If thetool can be run, the schedule a t

NOTE: Your text editor must be able create a text-only file with no embedded formatting.4. Following the leading XML version and tool-list tags, type

9. To finish the TDEF, enter the final tool list tag as shown below.The fully composed TDEF for a SSA copy tool to deploy the HP Security Patch to a m

hostname. The <toolbox-enabled> element can have a value of true or false. If the <toolbox-enabled>element is true, it will be associated

For more information about specific MSA tool requirements and attributes, see “MSA-specificattributes” (page 201).Example Enabling Remote Desktop tool

Adding a TDEF to HP SIMAfter you create a custom TDEF, to function, you must add it into HP SIM. Add a TDEF to HP SIMusing the mxtool -a command, as d

Modifying a TDEFModifying a TDEF allows users to customize the XML to align with their business. Each TDEF includedcan be modified to fit with each cu

mxmib...148mxmib MIB keyword custo

18 Federated SearchSelect Reports→Federated Search...Federated Search is a web-based HP SIM plug-in that enables you to search quickly across anumber

4. Configure the remote CMS.The main CMSs SSL certificate is exported to the secondary CMS, and the secondary CMSis configured to trust the main CMS.

19 CMS Reconfigure ToolThe CMS Reconfigure Tool feature provides a set of commands that enable you to quickly makecommon reconfiguration changes to HP

When this command is run, and the new password is typed and confirmed, all services are stopped.The password entered is then updated on services that

3. Open the Windows command prompt and navigate to ..\Program Files\HP\Operations Orchestration\Central\tools .4. Execute change-db-props.bat to chang

• The host is still in the same domain.• All credentials are known.• The new host name can be resolved by the DNS server.• The new IP address is valid

Procedure 22 Changing the database authorizations for Matrix OE and HP Operations Orchestration1. Update the gwlmdb.properties file by executing the f

with the new database, and the username credential that HP SIM or HP Insight Control uses toaccess the new database.NOTE: This is not supported on VCE

20 Understanding HP SIM securityThis chapter provides an overview of the security features available in the HP SIM framework. HPSIM runs on a CMS and

In HP SIM, the Privilege Elevation feature enables tools to be run against HP-UX, Linux, and ESXmanaged systems by first signing in as a non-root user