HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Command Line Interface Guide

and nodename), then a modify operation is automatically performed on the credential and the
username and password are updated.
NOTE: A system name is not specified when adding default or global credentials. Default
credential names use the format @defaultN, where N is an automatically assigned numerical
indicating usage.
Example 6
To add a default SNMP protocol credential to the system security repository, enter
mxnodesecurity -a -p snmp -c readname:writename. The read community string and
the write community string are required for the SNMP protocol.
NOTE: A system name is not needed when you add default credentials, because default credentials
apply to all systems. Default credential names use the format @defaultN, where N is an automatically
assigned numerical value.
Example 7
To modify the username and password of an existing default or global credential with an SSH
specified protocol and a specified nodename of @default3, enter mxnodesecurity -a -p
snmp -c readname:writename.
NOTE: A system name is not needed when you add default credentials, because default credentials
apply to all systems. Default credential names use the format @defaultN, where N is an automatically
assigned numerical value.
Example 8
To add credentials to the Systems Insight Manager database based on the contents of /home/
user1/defs/newcredentials.xml, enter mxnodesecurity -a -f
/home/user1/defs/newcredentials.xml.
Example 9
To remove all all default or global (and only default or global) type credentials in the Systems
Insight Manager of the specified protocol type or name, enter mxnodesecurity -r -p wbem.
Example 10
To remove all WBEM credentials of default port number for the system mycomputer.ak.hp.com,
enter mxnodesecurity -r -p wbem -n mycomputer.ak.hp.com.
Example 11
To remove credentials in the Systems Insight Manager database based on the contents of /home/
user1/defs/newcredentials.xml, enter mxnodesecurity -r -f
/home/user1/defs/newcredentials.xml .
Example 12
To list all default or global and node or system credentials contained in the Systems Insight Manager
database, enter mxnodesecurity -l.
Example 13
To list default or system WBEM credentials, enter mxnodesecurity -l -p wbem.
Example 14
To list the WBEM credentials for the system mycomputer.ak.hp.com, enter mxnodesecurity -l
-p wbem -n mycomputer.ak.hp.com.
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