Product Features
- Introducing HP SIM
- HP Unified Infrastructure Management – A foundation for the Adaptive Enterprise
- HP Insight Control and ProLiant Essentials Management Software
- HP Systems Insight Manager Comprehensive management through core services
- Plug-ins for HP SIM 5.1
- Using HP SIM for basic discovery and data collection
- System collections features
- Associations for Integrity servers and server to MP
- HP System Management Homepage
- New features for HP SIM 5.1
- Command line interface
Architecture
- Browser Interface Layer – Network clients
- Central Management Server layer
- Infrastructure services
- Group Management Services
- Managed Systems & Agents Layer
- Discovery, Identification and Associations
- Identification protocols
- Data collection
- Data repository
- Security
- Plug-in Types
- HP SIM Distributed Task Facility (DTF)
- New architectural features
- HP Virtual Server Environment overview
- HP SIM JBoss environment
Installation and Configuration
- CMS requirements
- HP SIM Install
- Configuring the CMS
- Initial setup
- Setting up a managed system
- Using Configure or Repair Agents
- Migrating to HP SIM 5.1
- Installation & configuration notes
- Audit log configuration and Task Results
- Setting the System Link Configuration
- HP SIM and HP-UX Security Containment
- Setting up SysFaultMgmt
- Setting up SNMP on a managed system
- Configuring the CMS to use Oracle
- Backing up and restoring the PostgreSQL database
Monitoring Managed Systems and Devices
- Customizing the HP SIM Home Page
- The System, Tools & Links, Events and Essentials
- Editing system properties
- Suspending system monitoring
- Indication generation and subscription
- HP SIM and cluster monitoring
- Serviceguard Manager integration
Using Tasks, Collections, Tools, and Events
- Tasks overview
- Polling and control tasks
- Automatic event handling tasks
- Scheduling options
- Collections overview
- Custom commands overview
- Managing events
- Configuring automatic event handling
- Service Essentials Remote Support Pack
- HP SIM 5.1 and RSP integration
Version Control and Software Deployment
- Version control architecture
- Security considerations
- VCA installation – Operating system requirements
- Configuring the repository
- Discovering software status
- Creating a task to update a managed system
- Running the update software and firmware task
Using Best Practices for Security
- Security concepts
- HP SIM security architecture
- Encrypted communications
- Certificates
- Secure Task Execution
- Server certificate
- Managed system security
- Security tasks
Managing the CMS
- Audit Logging
- Managing the Database
- Database backup and restore
Creating Reports
- Accessing, managing and creating Reports
- Viewing SQL Queries Used To Generate A Report
HP-UX Plug-Ins
- HP SIM + Integrity Essentials
- HP SIM + HP Integrity Essentials for HP-UX 11i
- HP Integrity Essentials HP SIM Compatibility Matrix
- Changes to management plug-ins
Managing Storage
- Managing storage components
- Storage collections and reporting
- Discovery of storage devices using SMI-S
- Discovery of storage devices using SNMP
- Devices discovered from Command View
Creating Custom Tools
- Creating New Tools
- Tool Filtering
HP-UX System Management Homepage
- Configuration
- Using Apache – Tomcat Connector Modules
- Security Settings
- Adding a custom command
- System Management Homepage Log
HP Integrity and HP 9000 ILO
- HP Integrity/9000 Integrated Lights Out
- Features and functions of Integrity/9000 iLO from HP SIM
Troubleshooting
- Common problems
- Installation and configuration errors
- Network configuration errors
- Troubleshooting Tools
- Troubleshooting Security
- Troubleshooting Plug-ins
- Troubleshooting Storage
- Command line errors
- Browser configuration
HP Blade System Integrated Manager 2.0
- Features and benefits
- Functions
- Using BladeSystem Integrated Manager
- Table, Icons and Tree views
- Using the physical hierarchy
- Events, Performance and VM Performance tabs
- Rack and Enclosure View
- Power and thermal information
Virtual Machine Management Pack 2.x
- What’s new with VMM 2.x?
- Integration with HP SIM
- Benefits
- Technology overview
- Key benefits of virtual machine technology
- VMM architecture
- VMware Virtual Center
- Microsoft Virtual Server
- Installing ProLiant Essentials Virtualization Management Software
- Installing the VMM agent
- Setting up the virtual machine host
- Post-installation tasks
- Licensing
- Using VMM tools and controls
- Starting or stopping a virtual machine guest
- Move, Copy, and Migrate
- SAN Move
- Resource allocation
- VMM internal operations
- Troubleshooting VMM
Server Migration Pack 2.x
- What’s new in SMP 2.x?
- HP SIM integration
- Features and benefits
- SMP architecture
- Installing SMP
- SMP licensing
- VMware with ProLiant Essentials Virtualization Management Software
- Physical-to-virtual, Virtual-to-virtual and Virtual-to-physical migrations
- Troubleshooting
Performance Management Pack 4.x
- Integration with HP SIM 5.x
- PMP architecture and components
- Installing PMP
- Upgrading PMP
- Licensing
- Using the HP SIM License Manager
- Navigating PMP menus
- System Management Homepage
- Using HP SIM automatic discovery
- Enabling network storage monitoring
- Monitoring and analyzing performance
- Analysis tools
- Troubleshooting PMP
Vulnerability and Patch Management 2.x
- VPM features
- Integration with HP SIM 5.x
- Comprehensive vulnerability assessment
- VPM Acquisition Utility
- Installing VPM
- Licensing VPM
- Data flow through VPM
- Scanning and patching a client system
- VPM events
- Patch and fix events
- Troubleshooting VPM installation and configuration
- Patches and configuration fixes
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