Managing your HP-UX inventory with HP SIM (430146-002, January 2009)

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settings available in HP SIM. The command

mxnodesecurity

enables you to set WBEM and

SNMP credentials. Both commands accept XML formatted data, either from a file or from the

command lin

e, and sets the global protocol settings accordingly.

Refer to the man page

mxglobalprotocolsettings

and

mxnodesecurity

for details on using the

CLI. Refer to the man page

mxglobalprotocolsettings(4)

and

mxnodesecurity(4)

for XML

formatting details.

change a specific global protocol setting, use the following command:

% mxglobalprotocolsettings

–

s enable

snmp=true

The

enable

snmp

setting is one of many available. All available settings are documented in the

mxglobalprotocolsettings(4)

manpage.

A co

nvenient way to change multiple protocol settings is to use an XML file. The command to do this

looks like,

% mxglobalsettingsprotocol

–

f globalprotocol.xml

The

globalprotocol.xml

file might look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF

8"?>

<global

rotocol

settings xmlns="http://www.hp.com/hpsim5.0.0.0">

<use

icmp

for

ping value="true" />

<default

ping

timeout

seconds value="5" />

<default

ping

retries value="2" />

<enable

wbem value="true" />

<enable

http

and

https value="true" />

<enable

snmp value

="true" />

<default

snmp

timeout

seconds value="5" />

<default

snmp

retries value="1" />

<enable

dmi value="false" />

</global

protocol

settings>

To view the current global protocol settings in XML format, use the following command:

% mxglobalprotocolsett

ings

–

Alternatively, you can have the settings displayed in a text format with,

% mxglobalprotocolsettings

–

The command

mxnodesecurity

enables you to set WBEM and SNMP credentials. Both commands

accept XML formatted data, either from a file or fr

om the command line, and sets the protocol settings

accordingly.

Here are the commands to add a credential for WBEM and SNMP for the system “nodeName1”:

% mxnodesecurity

–

p wbem

–

c root:password

–

n nodeName1 ; WBEM

; WBEM

% mxnodesecuri

–

p snmp

–

c public:private

–

n nodeName1 ; SNMP

The

and

parameters must be provided. The

parameter is optional. If provided, the credential

will be for the selected system only. If not provided, the credential will apply to all systems kno

wn by

HP SIM.