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

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The
mxnodesecurity
command can also use an XML file to add the credentials for WBEM and
SNMP to a list of systems. For example,
% mxnodesecurity
–
a
–
f credential.xml
The
credential.xml
file might contain the following:
<?xml version="1.0
" encoding="UTF
-
8" ?>
<nodelist>
<node name="nodeName1">
<credential protocol="wbem" username="root"
password="password" />
<credential protocol="snmp" username="public"
password="private" />
</node>
<node name="nodeName2">
<credential protocol="wbem" u
sername="root"
password="password" />
<credential protocol="snmp" username="public"
password="private" />
</node>
</nodelist>
To remove the WBEM or SNMP credentials from a system use the following commands:
% mxnodesecurity
–
r
–
p wbem
–
n nodeName1
%
mxnodesecurity
–
r
–
p snmp
–
n nodeName1
To remove credentials from a list of systems, use following command:
% mxnodesecurity
–
r
–
f credential.xml
Collecting inventory data
Now that you have the proper software installed on the managed servers and you h
ave configured
the protocol settings on HP SIM, you can now collect and store detailed inventory data from your
managed servers. This process is called data collection. Data collection is automatically run during
discovery. However, you can also schedule
data collection to run independently.
Discovery GUI
Discovery must be run so that HP SIM can learn about the servers you are managing. After the
servers are discovered, system identification and data collection is performed, populating the HP SIM
databas
e with the detailed inventory data you are looking to manage.
Discovery is configured by selecting
Options

Discovery
in the HP SIM GUI. The
Discovery
page appears.