HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

4 Getting started

If you are getting started with HP SIM, you must first familiarize yourself with the software and set it up for

your environment by reviewing the information in the “Product overview” section. Then, complete the following

steps:

• Sign in to the

GUI

. See “Signing in” for details.

• Familiarize yourself with the HP SIM Home page. See “Navigating the Home page” for details.

• If this is a new installation, perform the initial setup.

The First Time Wizard starts the first time an

administrative rights

signs in to HP SIM. The wizard provides

step-by-step instructions for performing the initial configuration of HP SIM. Additional configuration

options are available through the HP SIM GUI. See “Using the First Time Wizard” and “Performing

initial setup” for details. Only users with administrative rights can configure HP SIM.

• Familiarize yourself with how to schedule and execute tasks. See “Managing with tasks” for details.

• Familiarize yourself with the HP SIM reporting features. See “Reporting” for details.

• If you intend to use the

CLI

, review the HP SIM commands. See “Using command line interface

commands” and the

HP SIM 5.3 Command Line Interface Reference Guide

at http://

h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for details.

• Customize the Home page and the System Status panel. See “Customizing the Home page” and

“Customizing the System Status panel” for details.

Related procedures

• Signing in

• Signing out

• Product registration

• Navigating the Home page

• Performing initial setup

• Using command line interface commands

• Customizing the Home page

• Customizing the System Status panel