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

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User based authentication
Each user must be authenticated on the managed system.
6. Select Trust relationship to set a trust relationship between managed systems and CMS.
This enables Systems Insight Manager users to connect to HP SMH, Onboard
Administrator, iLO (version 2 and later), and HP Version Control Agent (VCA) using the
Systems Insight Manager certificate for authentication plan.
7. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click [Next], or to return to the previous step,
click [Previous].
Configuring WMI Mapper
WBEM is used by Systems Insight Manager to identify and communicate with managed systems.
Therefore, on Windows systems, a WMI Mapper Proxy must be configured for this communication
to take place.
1. Enter the WMI Mapper Proxy host name and port number. The user name and password
credentials must be entered on the First Time Wizard Configure Managed Systems page.
2. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click [Next], or to return to the previous step,
click [Previous].
Configuring privilege elevation on HP-UX
From this page, you can enable privilege elevation for Linux, HP-UX, and ESX managed systems.
This enables you to sign in as an unprivileged user and elevate the privilege to run on these
operating systems.
You can also configure privilege elevation from the Systems Insight Manager menu by selecting
Options->Security->Privilege Elevation.
1. Choose one of the following:
To configure privilege elevation for ESX systems, select Enable privilege elevation
for VMware ESX.
To configure privilege elevation for Linux and HP-UX systems, select Enable
privilege elevation for Linux & HP-UX.
2. Select the elevation tool type from the menu.
If a password is required for the tool, select A password is required for this privilege
elevation tool.
3. (Optional) Edit the Privilege elevation tool command.
4. Select the user to sign in to the managed system from the following options:
Same as Systems Insight Manager signed-in user
Specify at run time
Use this user
If you select Use this user, enter the user name.
5. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click [Next], or to return to the previous step,
click [Previous].