HP Insight Control for Linux 7.0 Installation Guide

6 Logging in and configuring Systems Insight Manager
If you installed Systems Insight Manager from the Insight Control for Linux distribution medium,
follow the procedures in this chapter to log in to Systems Insight Manager and configure it for use
with Insight Control for Linux. When you log in to Systems Insight Manager for the first time, a First
Time Wizard is launched, and you will answer basic configuration questions. After this is complete,
Insight Control for Linux tools and utilities are integrated with and available from the Systems Insight
Manager GUI.
IMPORTANT: Even if Systems Insight Manager was previously installed and configured on the
CMS and you did not install Systems Insight Manager from the Insight Control for Linux distribution
medium, follow the instructions in Section 6.6 (page 51) to add Insight Control for Linux license
keys to Systems Insight Manager.
6.1 Creating administrator accounts
The first time you access Systems Insight Manager, you must log in as root. However, to eliminate
having to log in as root, HP recommends that you create a non-root account with the privileges
required to access and use Systems Insight Manager.
This task is optional and whether or not you create administrator accounts depends upon the level
of security you maintain at your facility and how closely you guard the root password.
To create a user account with appropriate administrator privileges, follow these steps:
1. Create a Linux user account. In this example, the user name is iclxadmin. You are free to
choose your own user name.
# groupadd -g 1001 iclxadmin
# useradd -u 1001 -g 1001 iclxadmin
# passwd iclxadmin
New password:
Re-type new password
Adding password for user iclxadmin
2. Create a user name and password to authenticate to the Apache web server. HP recommends
that you use the same Linux user name and password created in the previous step, but it is
not required.
• For RHEL:
# /usr/bin/htpasswd /opt/hptc/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users iclxadmin
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user iclxadmin
• For SLES:
# /usr/sbin/htpasswd2 /opt/hptc/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users iclxadmin
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user iclxadmin
3. Add and authorize the Linux user to log in to Systems Insight Manager:
# mxuser –a iclxadmin –d “Insight Control for Linux Administrator” –p full –C root
where:
• –a iclxadmin adds the iclxadmin user.
• –d “Insight Control for Linux Administrator” specifies a description of
the user. You are free to choose your own description.
• –p full allows rights for all CMS configuration operations.
• –C root copies the authorizations from the root user to the new user.
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