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

White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2
23 | March, 2013
If this option is selected, the Read Only community string is added to the target
systems. If the target system is SUSE Linux or Microsoft Windows 2003, the
managed systems do not always enable SNMP communication between
themselves and a remote host. This setting is modified to enable the instance
of the Systems Insight Manager system to communicate using SNMP with these
target systems.
You can enter a community string up to 255 characters.
Repairing the SNMP settings adds a Read Write community string to the target
system only if one does not currently exist. This community string is unique for
each system, is comprised of over 30 characters including letters and numbers,
and is visible only to the user with administrator privileges for that system. This
Read Write community string is required by the Web Agent to perform certain
threshold setting capabilities. This community string is only used locally on the
target system and is not used by Systems Insight Manager over the network.
Linux and HP-UX systems do not require a Read Write community string; hence,
the Read Write community is added on Windows systems only.
The Trap Community String is only for the iLO Management Engine.
b. Select Set traps to refer to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager in the
target systems' SNMP Trap Destination List. This setting enables the target
systems to send SNMP traps to this instance of Systems Insight Manager.
Set the additional list of the SNMP Trap destination for an iLO Management
Engine.
c. Select Send a sample SNMP trap to this instance of the Systems Insight
Manager to test that events appear in Systems Insight Manager event lists to
verify that SNMP events appear in the Systems Insight Manager events list.
To successfully send a test trap, you must configure target systems to send a
trap to this instance. You can send a test trap only from a managed system with
an HP Insight Management Agent installed.
The trap from Windows appears as a Generic Trap from the system and is listed
as a Major Event in the Event List of Systems Insight Manager.
The following options are available for an iLO management engine:
Configure SNMP for an iLO management Engine
Forward Insight Manager Agent SNMP Alerts
iLO SNMP Alerts
– Configure secure shell (SSH) access
Select this option to configure SSH access on managed systems.
If this option is selected, you must select one of the following options:
Host based authentication for SSH
For this option to work, the user name and password provided in step 2 must be an
administrative-level account. For Linux or HP-UX targets, it must be the root account
and password.