Accessing Capacity Advisor

Before you can use HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor, you must access it via HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM).

Prerequisites. This procedure assumes:

You are familiar with HP Systems Insight Manager. For information on HP SIM, select HelpFor HP Systems Insight Manager from the upper, HP SIM menu-bar to access the HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide.
You have appropriate licenses to use Capacity Advisor on the Central Management Server (CMS) and the systems you wish to monitor with HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor (see VSE Management Software Quick Start Guide).
You have appropriate authorizations to use Capacity Advisor on the CMS and the systems you wish to monitor (see VSE Management Software Quick Start Guide).

Procedure 4-1 To Access Capacity Advisor

Open a Web browser.
Enter the following in the Address field (it is not always labeled in browsers):
http://SIM-Host:280
where SIM-Host is the server running HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM).
Press Enter.
A login screen will be displayed (if security dialogs are presented first, respond appropriately).
Fill in the User name and Password fields.
Click Sign In or press Enter.
The screen displayed will depend on the last session you had in HP Systems Insight Manager
If the VSE Management: Capacity Advisor screen is not displayed, select OptimizeCapacity AdvisorView Scenarios ... from the upper, HP SIM menu-bar.
The VSE Management: Capacity Advisor screen is displayed, with a list of the scenarios that have already been created.

What Now? Once you are logged in to HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor, you might want to:

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