HP Systems Insight Manager
This course covers the installation, configuration and use of HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) on a HP-UX Central Manager Server.
Course number HB508S
Delivery method
Remotely assisted instructional learning (RAIL)
Onsite dedicated training (OST)
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
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
Certifikati:
- Upis u radnu knjižicu: ne
- Certifikat: ne
- Uvjerenje: ne
- In-house: ne
- Svjedodžba: ne
- Diploma: ne