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Course number HB508S
Length 3 days
Delivery method Remotely assisted instructional learning ( RAIL)
Onsite dedicated training ( OST)
Price USD $1,800
CAD $2,160

Special Note

This course is part of HP Virtualization Curriculum

  • This HB508S course is targeted towards customers managing HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) included with their HP-UX Operating System
  • If you are managing HP Insight Control (ICE) with HP SIM on ProLiant/HP BladeSystem servers running Windows & Linux Operating Systems, please attend HE644S

Course overview

This course covers the installation, configuration and use of HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) on a HP-UX Central Manager Server. HP SIM provides the basic management features of device discovery and identification, single event view, inventory data collection and reporting. This course focuses on the HP-UX environment and is 60% lecture and 40% hands-on labs using HP servers.


Prerequisites

  • Experience in HP-UX administration
  • Familiarity with network concepts and configuration

Audience

  • HP-UX System Administrators
  • HP-UX System Managers

Ways to save

Course objectives

  • Describe the architecture of HP SIM
  • Install and configure HP SIM on HP-UX
At the conclusion of this course you should be able to:
  • Monitor managed systems
  • Describe and setup tasks, events, tools, and trusts
  • Setup HP SIM security
  • Manage the HP SIM server and create reports
  • Troubleshoot HP SIM

Next steps

  • HP Partition Management (U5075S)
  • HP-UX Resource Management: WLM & PRM (U5447S)

Benefits to you

  • Monitor and manage multiple systems from a single location and improve the utilization of your server environment by knowing how to quickly move computer power where it is needed
  • Learn how to automate events and tasks to reduce manual processes and free resources for innovation
  • Create consistent reports on managed systems to enable faster and more efficient decisions

Course outline

  • Describe System Insight Manager
  • New features
  • Architecture Components of HPSIM
  • Installation Requirements
  • Describe Databases Used
  • Managed System requirements
  • HPSIM Sizing Tool
  • List Install Requirements and Activities
  • Steps for Installing Central Management Server
  • Upgrades and migrations
  • Configuring HPSIM Homepage
  • Create and Assign User Rights
  • Setting up Discovery
  • Navigate System pages
  • Configure and Customize HPSIM
  • Features and benefits of Bladesystem Integrated Manager
  • Features and benefits of Insight Power Manager
  • Describe Tasks, Collections, Tools, and Events
  • Creating Tools
  • Identify how Events are Generated & Managed
  • Reports, accessing & Managing
  • Describe Audit logging, Features & Access
  • Identify Storage Management Components in HPSIM
  • Database Management Tasks
  • Capabilities of the System Type Manager
  • Working with MIBS in HPSIM
  • Describe HP Analysis Tools in HPIM
  • Using the Tool Creation GUI
  • Troubleshooting HPSIM

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