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

White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2
24 | March, 2013
User based authentication
Each user has to be authenticated on the managed system.
If you do not want all users that have sign-in access to Systems Insight Manager to
run the tool and you would like to control which users need to have access, this
option is more secure.
SSH can be configured only if the OpenSSH service is running on the managed
systems. OpenSSH can be installed on Windows systems by running the Install Open
SSH as done in the Step Three: Configure or Repair Agents page or by selecting the
tool under Deploy->Deploy Drivers, Firmware and Agents->Install Open SSH.
– Set Trust relationship to "Trust by Certificate"
Select this option to configure systems to use the Trust by Certificate trust
relationship with the System Management Homepage.
For Systems Insight Manager on the target systems, this option sets the trust mode
to Trust by Certificate and copies the Systems Insight Manager system certificate to
the target system trusted certificate directory. This option enables Systems Insight
Manager users to connect to the System Management Homepage using the
certificate for authentication.
You can configure SSO to management processors for Onboard Administrator and
for iLO2. To configure SSO, select Set Trust Relationship. After you configure SSO,
you are not continually prompted to supply the login credentials for the
management processor.
For systems with Management HTTP Server 4.x and earlier, the Configure or Repair
Agents feature adds the Administrator password in the Management HTTP Server
store and modifies the SNMP settings but cannot change trust relationship
information.
– Configure Version Control Agent (VCA)
Select this option to configure the VCA to point to the HP Version Control Repository
Manager (VCRM) where the repository of software and firmware is located, enabling
version comparison and software updates. This option is available only for Windows
systems. This section can be accessed in the Configuration section of all CMS
systems including Windows, Linux, and HP-UX.
To configure VCA, do one of the following:
Use a certificate to authenticate VCA to access VCRM.
Enter the credentials that the VCA will use to access the VCRM.
To enter the credentials for the VCA:
a. In the Select the system where the VCRM is installed field, select the server
where the VCRM is installed from the list.
b. In the User Name field, enter the user name to access the VCRM. This user
cannot be the default "Administrator" user. It has to be a user with
administrative privileges.
c. In the Password field, enter the password to access the VCRM.