HP Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

NOTE: This page only appears if you selected to manage a Windows operating system.
• Privilege Elevation Enable privilege elevation if, on HP-UX, Linux, and ESX managed systems, you
are required to sign in as a non-root user and then request privilege elevation to run root-level tools.
• E-mail Enter the e-mail settings that the CMS will use to send e-mail notifications. You can set up
Automatic Event Handling tasks that prompt Systems Insight Manager to send e-mails when the CMS
receives a specific event.
• Summary Displays all First Time Wizard settings with the option to modify settings or to finish the
First Time Wizard.
The First Time Wizard configures only the basic settings of Systems Insight Manager. When you are finished
entering information in the Systems Insight Manager First Time Wizard, review your selections on the
Summary Page, and then click Finish to save them. For more information on the First Time Wizard, see
the Systems Insight Manager help system.
Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu
To configure Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu, you must configure the following for the
managed systems.
Procedure 4-1 Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu
1. Configure the protocol settings.
Protocol settings define how Systems Insight Manager communicates with the managed systems. To
configure these settings, Select Options→Protocol Settings→Global Protocol Settings.
2. Add users and user groups.
NOTE: Users that have been added to the Central Management Server (CMS) cannot view or manage
systems until authorizations have been configured for them.
NOTE: HP-UX and Linux-provided command line tools, such as ls and df, are run as root by default.
For security reasons, you run them as a specific user to avoid permitting unintended capabilities to a
user.
To add users, select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Users, and then click New.
To add user groups, select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Users, and then click
New Group.
3. Add toolboxes.
Toolboxes , define the set of tools to which a user has access. To add toolboxes, select
Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Toolboxes, and then click New.
4. Add authorizations.
Authorizations give the user access to view and manage systems. Each authorization specifies a user
or user group, a toolbox, and a system or system group. The specific set of tools that can be run against
a system is specified in the assigned toolbox.
You must plan which systems each user is going to manage and which specific set of tools the users
are authorized to execute against the managed systems. A user with no toolbox authorizations on a
system cannot view or manage that system.
Authorizations are additive. If a user is authorized on Toolbox1 on a system and is also authorized for
Toolbox2 on the same system, the user is authorized for all tools in both Toolbox1 and Toolbox2 on
that system. Similarly, a user authorized for the All Tools toolbox does not require an additional toolbox
authorization on that system, because the All Tools toolbox includes all tools.
To add authorizations, select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Authorizations, and
then click New.
26 Configuring Systems Insight Manager