HP Systems Insight Manager

Special Note

This course is part of HP Virtualization Curriculum

Course overview

This course covers the installation, configuration and use of HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM),the foundation for HP's unified server-storage management strategy. 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 50% lecture, 50% lab work.

Prerequisites

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

Audience

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

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Course objectives

• Describe the purpose and role of HP SIM with respect to other HP management tools such as HP OpenView and the HP-UX System Management Homepage (SMH)
• Describe the architecture of HP SIM
• Install and configure HP SIM on HP-UX
• Perform discovery and identification of systems and devices on the network
• Monitor managed systems
• Set up roles and authorizations for HP SIM users
• Configure protocols for managing remote systems
• Perform data collection and reporting
• Create tasks, lists, new tools, events, and trust relationships with other systems
• Manage the HP SIM security configuration
• Describe the architecture of the HP-UX SMH
• Configure HP-UX SMH integration with HP SIM
• Describe storage management features
• Describe interaction with VSE plugins
• Perform HP SIM management operations from the command line
• Describe management of HP Integrated Lights Out (iLO) devices using HP SIM
• Backup and restore the HP SIM database
• Compile MIBs for third-party systems
• Manage system types using the System Type Manager
• Audit usage of HP SIM by examining the Audit Log
• Configure HP SIM to integrate with SysFaultMgmt on a remote system
• Configure HP SIM to respond to WBEM indications
• Describe the EMS Wrapper Provider architecture
• Describe ISEE integration with HP SIM
• Troubleshoot HP SIM configurations

Next steps

• HP-UX Partition Management (vPars, nPars) and HP Virtual Machines (U5075S)
• HP-UX resource management with PRM & WLM (U5447S)

Benefits to you

• Monitor and manage multiple systems from a single location
• Automate events and tasks
• Create consistent reports on managed systems

Course outline

HP SIM Product Overview

• The Case for HP SIM
• Key Features
• Using HP Systems Insight Manager

HP SIM Architecture

• HP SIM Architecture
• Group Management Services
• Plug-in Management

Installing HP SIM

• Installation requirements
• Initial Setup
• Migrating to HP SIM 5.0
• Installing HP SIM

Monitoring HP SIM Managed Nodes

• HP SIM Home Page
• HP SIM Systems and Events
• HP SIM and WBEM Indications
• HP SIM and EMS Monitors
• HP SIM and Cluster Monitoring
• HP Serviceguard Manager

Using HP SIM Tasks, Lists, Tools and Events

• Tasks
• Collections Overview
• Menus Overview
• Custom Commands Overview
• Events Overview
• ISEE Integration

Securing HP SIM

• Security Concepts
• Browser Security
• CMS User Security
• CMS Security
• Managed System Communications Security
• Security Administration Tasks

Managing the HP SIM CMS

• Audit Logging
• Managing the Database
• The System Type Manager
• Managing Hosts Files
• MIB Importing and Compiling

Creating Reports with HP SIM

• Accessing Reports
• Managing Reports
• Creating Reports
• Specifying Report Contents
• Copying Reports
• Editing Reports
• Viewing Reports

Using Plug-ins with HP SIM

• HP SIM + HP Integrity Essentials for HP-UX
• HP SIM + HP Integrity Essentials for HP-UX
• HP SIM + HP Storage Essentials

Managing Storage with HP SIM

• Managing Storage Components
• Storage Device System Pages
• Storage Collections
• Storage Reporting
• Storage Device Discovery

Creating Custom HP SIM Custom Tools

• Tools Overview
• Creating a New Custom Tool
• Deleting a Custom Tool
• Editing a Custom Tool
• Tool Filtering

Using HP SIM with the HP-UX System Management Homepage

• HP-UX System Management Homepage Overview
• SMH Start-up
• SMH Security
• SMH Logging

Using HP SIM with HP Integrity/9000 Integrated Lights Out

• HP Integrity/9000 Integrated Lights Out Overview
• Launching iLO from HP SIM
• Using the iLO Web User Interface

HP SIM Troubleshooting

• Common Problems
• Installation and Configuration Errors
• Network Configuration Errors
• Authorization Errors
• Tools Errors
• Security Certificate Errors
• Plug-in Errors
• Storage Errors
• Command Line Errors
• Browser Errors