Getting Started with HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 or Greater in a Smaller Windows Environment

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a. Select Set SNMP community string to specify a community string. By default, Systems
Insight Manager first community string, that is public, appears in the field. If no
community string exists in Systems Insight Manager, you must enter one.
o Read Community String
o Trap Community String
If only HP-UX systems with default SNMP installation are being configured at this time,
you need not set this option. HP-UX enables read by default (get-community-name is set to
public by default on HP-UX systems).
If this option is selected, the Read Only community string is added to the target systems. If
the target system is SUSE Linux or Microsoft Windows 2003, the managed systems do
not always enable SNMP communication between themselves and a remote host. This
setting is modified to enable the instance of the Systems Insight Manager system to
communicate using SNMP with these target systems.
You can enter a community string up to 255 characters.
Repairing the SNMP settings adds a Read Write community string to the target system
only if one does not currently exist. This community string is unique for each system, is
composed of over 30 characters to include letters and numbers, and is visible only to the
user with administrator privileges for that system. This Read Write community string is
required by the Web Agent to perform certain threshold setting capabilities. This
community string is only used locally on the target system and is not used by Systems
Insight Manager over the network. Linux and HP-UX systems do not require a Read Write
community string; hence the Read Write community is added on Windows systems only.
The Trap Community String is only for the iLO Management Engine.
b. Select Set traps to refer to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager in the target
systems' SNMP Trap Destination List. This setting enables the target systems to send
SNMP traps to this instance of Systems Insight Manager.
o Set the additional list of the SNMP Trap destination for an iLO Management Engine.
c. Select Send a sample SNMP trap to this instance of the Systems Insight Manager to test
that events appear in Systems Insight Manager event lists to verify that SNMP events
appear in the Systems Insight Manager events list.
To successfully send a test trap, you must configure target systems to send a trap to this
instance. You can send a test trap only from a managed system with an HP Insight
Management Agent installed.
The trap from Windows appears as a Generic Trap from the system and is listed as a
Major Event in the Event List of Systems Insight Manager.
The following options are available for an iLO management engine.
o Configure SNMP for an iLO management Engine
o Forward Insight Manager Agent SNMP Alerts
o iLO SNMP Alerts
– Configure secure shell (SSH) access. Select this option to configure SSH access on managed
systems.
If this option is selected, you must select one of the following options:
o Host based authentication for SSH
For this option to work, the user name and password provided in step 2 must be an
administrative level account. For Linux or HP-UX targets, it must be the "root" account and
password.
o Each user has to be authenticated on the managed system
If you do not want all users that have sign-in access to Systems Insight Manager to run the
tool and you would like to control which users need to have access, this option is more
secure.