Getting started with HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 in a smaller Windows environment

White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2
22 | March, 2013
Note:
The indication will appear as an Informational Event in the Event List of Systems
Insight Manager.
This is supported only on HP-UX and Windows managed systems with WBEM
provider installed.
Use a Systems Insight Manager WBEM certificate (good for 10 years) rather than a
username/password to manage the system. This option deploys a WBEM
certificate to the managed system and is only valid for HP-UX systems.
Configure a non-administrative account for Systems Insight Manager to access
WMI data. This option applies to Windows systems with HP WBEM providers. The
configuration of the managed system updates to allow the specified user to
access WMI information over the network. Systems Insight Manager uses this
user to read inventory and configuration information from the system and is
configured as the WBEM user in the System Credentials. If Systems Insight
Manager is configured with a user with administrative rights, this configuration
step is not necessary. Systems Insight Manager does not create this user. The
user already exists as either a domain user or one local to the managed system.
The user is added to the DCOM Users group on the managed system and has read-
only access to WMI information, and read-write permissions to the HPQ name space.
This user does not need to be an administrator of the managed system and or have
sign-in rights. The domain administrator should create a special domain account.
To enter the credentials for Systems Insight Manager to use to access the managed
systems:
1. In the User name field, enter a user name.
2. In the Password field, enter the password.
3. In the Password (Verify) field, reenter the password.
4. In the Domain field, enter the Windows domain if the target belongs to a
domain.
If configuring a non-administrative user is successful, then these credentials are
saved as the System Credentials for WBEM access in Systems Insight Manager.
– Configure SNMP
This section enables you to configure SNMP settings.
a. Select Set SNMP community string to specify a community string. By default,
Systems Insight Manager’s first community string that is public appears in the
field. If no community string exists in Systems Insight Manager, you must enter
one.
– Read Community String
– Trap Community String
If only HP-UX systems that are installed with default SNMP are being
configured at this time, you need not set this option. HP-UX enables the read by
default feature (get-community-name is set to public by default on HP-UX
systems).