Accessing Capacity Advisor

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

This procedure assumes the following:

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 Capacity Advisor (see HP Insight Dynamics — VSE and HP VSE Management Software 4.1 Getting Started Guide).

Procedure 5-1 Accessing 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 is 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 HP SIM menu bar.
The VSE Management: Capacity Advisor screen is displayed, with a list of the scenarios that have already been created.

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