Product Overview * Insight Control Environment * Features * What’s new * Product architecture * System collections * User configuration and security * Tools * Information storage * SSH and secure data transmission * Security Installation * System Requirements * Central Management Server * Describe the architecture of the HP-UX SMH * SSH * Managed system requirements * First time install and configuration * Upgrades and migrations * Tuning HP SIM * Removing HP SIM Managed System Setup * Installing required software * Setting up managed storage Configuring SIM * First time wizard * Configure protocol settings * Add users, toolboxes, and authorizations * Configure email and paging notification * Configure and run automatic and manual discovery Managed systems setup and configuration * Requirements * SIM installation * Configuring the SIM interface * Preparing the managed environment * Management protocols * SNMP and Web Based Enterprise Management * Configure or repair options for agents Working with system collections * Use predefined collections * Create custom collections * Best practices for collections Inventory management * Requirements * Systems lists and folders * System identification * MIB importing compiling * Data collection * Manual discovery * Reports * Snapshot Comparisons Fault Management * Requirements * Health Status and Events * Hardware and software status polling task * Automatic actions * Setting disk thresholds task Change management * Requirements * HP version control tools * Discovering software status * License manager * Custom commands and tool definitions Integrity Essentials * Describe interaction with VSE plugins * Perform HP SIM management operations from the command line * Configure HP SIM to integrate with SysFaultMgmt on a remote system * Describe the EMS Wrapper Provider architecture * Storage Essentials overview * Service Essentials Remote Support Pack Remote management * Requirements * Lights-Out technology * Configuring a Lights-Out device * Lights-Out menus and options * Remote console * Virtual devices * Lights-Out command line utilities * Directory service integration * Configure HP-UX SMH integration with HP SIM HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager * What’s new with BladeSystem Integrated Manager * Using BladeSystem Integrated Manager Initializing Remote Support Software Manager (RSSM) on the Windows CMS * Understanding RSSM * Initializing RSSM * Process for installing and configuring Service Essentials Remote Support Pack