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

White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2
29 | March, 2013
Glossary
Central
management
server (CMS)
A system in the management domain that executes the Systems Insight
Manager software. All central operations within Systems Insight Manager are
initiated from this system.
CIMOM
Common information Model Object Manager.
DCOM
Distributed Component Object Model.
HP VCRM (Version
Control
Repository
Manager)
An HP agent that enables a customer to manage HP provided software stored
in a user-defined repository.
HTTPS (Hyper
Text Transfer
Protocol)
The underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web. HTTPS is HTTP over
SSL, a protocol that supports sending data securely over the Web. HTTPS is
used to access WBEM data and ProLiant agent information. Digital certificates
are used instead of user names and passwords to establish trust between the
agent and the CMS. The certificate of the CMS should be loaded into each
agent to be managed by that CMS.
LUN
Logical unit number.
SNMP (Simple
Network
Management
Protocol)
SNMP is one of the management protocols supported by Systems Insight
Manager. It is the traditional management protocol used extensively by
networking systems and most servers. MIB-2 is the standard information
available consistently across all vendors.
SNMP v3 (Simple
Network
Management
Protocol, version
3)
The version 3 of SNMP adds security and configuration enhancements to
SNMP. It provides an encryption mechanism, as compared to the plain text
transmission in SNMP v1, and authentication to validate the source versus a
community string.
SMI-S provider
An industry-standard WBEM provider that implements a well defined interface
for storage management. The manufacturers of host bus adapters (HBAs),
switches, tape libraries, and storage arrays can either integrate SMI-S
providers with their systems, or provide them as separate software packages.