HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with SP1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows
Table Of Contents
- HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with SP1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows
- Table of Contents
- 1 Product overview
- 2 Installation overview and requirements
- 3 Installing HP SIM on the Central Management Server (CMS) for the first time
- 4 Configuring HP SIM using the First Time Wizard
- Using the First Time Wizard
- Configuring the managed environment
- Enabling automatic system discovery
- Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign in credentials
- Configuring managed systems
- Configuring the WMI Mapper Proxy
- Configuring privilege elevation
- Configuring e-mail settings
- First Time Wizard summary
- Finishing the First Time Wizard
- Operating-system-specific collections, reports, and tools
- 5 Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu
- 6 Setting up and configuring managed systems
- 7 Initializing the Remote Support Software Manager
- 8 Upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager
- 9 Uninstalling HP Systems Insight Manager
- 10 Using the graphical user interface
- 11 Using the command line interface
- 12 Configuration options
- 13 Troubleshooting
- glossary
- Index
requires registration, which is free. The Oracle DBA who manages the Oracle installation must perform
this task.
NOTE: You must install the Oracle JDBC driver, version 10.1.0.2.0. You can download this driver
from the Oracle website at
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/index.html.
Secure access
HP SIM utilizes several technologies to provide secure access. You can access HP SIM through the command
line or a web browser. Both of these user interfaces can be accessed from anywhere on your network.
Command line interface
When you access HP SIM from the CLI, your operating system login is used to identify you to HP SIM. You
have access to use the HP SIM commands based on your authorizations. If you access HP SIM from any
system other than the CMS, be sure you use an SSH client. Programs like telnet, rlogin, and FTP do not
provide encrypted access. When you use one of these applications to access HP SIM, your data, including
your password, is transmitted across the network unencrypted. In addition, these protocols are not
spoof-protected. If you have a Windows CMS, then only administrators have command line access to HP
SIM. A remote desktop connection to the CMS can be used to access the command line.
Graphical user interface
When you access the HP SIM from a web browser, you log in using the secure HTML login page. The user
name and password for the login page are the same as your CMS operating system user name and password.
A Windows CMS also requires a domain name. Your information is securely transmitted using the SSL
protocol. SSL provides data encryption and server authentication by using a public and private key technology.
The web server on the CMS uses a certificate for server authentication. By default, this certificate is self-signed,
but it can be replaced by a certificate that is signed by a trusted certificate authority. Your web browser
should import this certificate to trust the CMS.
Network Client
Central Management
Server
SSH
Tomcat
Web Server
HTTPS
Web Browser
SSH Client
SSH
DMI
SNMP
WBEM
HP-UX
Managed System
SSH
SNMP
WBEM
LINUX
Managed System
SSH
ProLiant
Support Pack
SNMP
WMI
Windows
Managed System
HP Systems
Insight
Manager
SSH
DMI
SNMP
WBEM
SSH
SNMP
WBEM
HTTPS
ProLiant
Support Pack
12 Product overview