HP Systems Insight Manager 7.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

It is important that you 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 needs no
other toolbox authorization on that system because the All Tools toolbox always includes all
tools.
To add authorizations, select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Authorizations,
and then click New.
5. Configure email settings
Email settings enables users to receive email notification of certain events. To configure email
settings, select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→Email Settings.
6. Set up automatic event handling.
Automatic event handling defines the action that HP SIM performs when an event is received.
To setup automatic event handling, select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→New
Task.
7. Configure and execute discovery.
Discovery is the process that HP SIM uses to find and identify the systems on your network
and populate the database with that information. To configure and execute a discovery, you
must create a Discovery task. HP SIM includes one default discovery task (system automatic
discovery). However, you can create a new discovery task to discover specific systems.
To configure Discovery, select Options→Discovery.
8. Configure the WMI Mapper.
In order for HP SIM to manage Windows systems, you must install the Pegasus WMI Mapper
service on a Windows system. To configure the WMI Mapper, select Options→Protocol
Settings→WMI Mapper Proxy.
For more information on the Options menu items, see the HP SIM help system.
Setting up Linux managed systems manually
You can use the HP SIM Configure or Repair Agents tool to configure Linux managed systems
simultaneously, or you can configure each managed system manually.
To manually configure Linux managed systems, perform the following on each managed system:
Procedure 3
1. Install and configure SSH.
a. Verify that SSH is installed on the managed system:
rpm -qa | grep ssh
If it is not installed, see your Linux provider for information on installing SSH.
b. On the CMS, copy the SSH generated public key from the CMS to the managed system,
and place it in the authorized keys file of the execute-as user (root or administrator).
IMPORTANT: On a non-English CMS, ensure that an administrator account (spelled
exactly as follows, administrator) exists on the CMS, and that mxagentconfig has been
run on the CMS for the created administrator account.
• Execute the following command in the CMS command prompt:
mxagentconfig -a -n hostname -u username -p Password
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