HP Management Integration Framework Administrator Guide (T5494-96539, October 2012)

8 Management Integration Framework concepts
Applications (Management Integration Framework specific)
The term Management Integration Framework application refers to an HP storage management
product or software component that is Management Integration Framework capable, usually for
the purposes of participating in Management Integration Framework security integration and Single
Pane-of-Glass interface.
Authenticators (Management Integration Framework specific)
A Management Group member machine is an authenticator if it can authenticate Management
Integration Framework users.
• Authenticator machines in the same Management Group can be members of different OS
security domains.
Configuration settings and service startup
When Management Integration Framework software is first installed on a machine, the default
settings are applied and there is no Management Integration Framework configuration file. When
you make and save the first change using the configuration interface, Management Integration
Framework software creates a configuration file and writes the changes to the file. All subsequent
configuration changes are written to the configuration file.
If no changes are made to the configuration settings, the default settings are applied whenever the
Management Integration Framework service is started. Once any setting is changed, the settings
in the configuration file are applied whenever the Management Integration Framework service is
started.
See also Restoring a default configuration.
Discovery
All machines with Management Integration Framework software which are on the same LAN can
automatically discover and communicate with each other.
To do this, the Management Integration Framework discovery component on each machine stores
information about its web service API and other functions in a local Management Integration
Framework registry. The local registry information is available to all Management Integration
Framework services and each discovery component synchronizes its registry with other discovery
components. Management Integration Framework components can then look up web services from
other Management Integration Framework components. The distributed and replicated registry
approach is supported on IPv4 and IPv6 networks using multicast, broadcast, and range-scanning
techniques, as appropriate.
Although discovery components can belong to only one Management Group at a time, they are
aware of, and communicate with, all discovery components that are visible on the LAN.
A Management Integration Framework discovery component is included in each instance of
Management Integration Framework software.
Discovery configuration settings include:
Non-local registry entry time-outDiscovery interval
Registry table updatesDiscovery URI
Registry update address
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