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
NOTE: You can send a test trap only from a managed system with an HP Insight Management
Agent installed.
NOTE: The trap from Windows appears as a Generic Trap from the system and is listed as
a Major Event in the Event List of HP SIM. The trap received from Linux and HP-UX targets
appears as a Cold Trap and is listed as Informational Events in the Event List of HP SIM.
• Configure secure shell (SSH) access Select this option to configure SSH access on managed
systems.
If you select this option, you must select one of the following options:
• Host based authentication for SSH
NOTE: 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.
• Each user has to be authenticated on the managed system
NOTE: If you do not want all users that have sign-in access to HP SIM to run the tool and
you would like to control which users need to have access, this option is more secure.
NOTE: You can configure SSH only if the OpenSSH service is running on the managed
systems. You can install OpenSSH on Windows systems by running the Install Open SSH
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 HP SIM.
For HP SIM on the target systems, this option sets the trust mode to Trust by Certificate and copies
the HP SIM system certificate to the target system trusted certificate directory. This option enables
HP SIM users to connect to the HP SMH 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.
NOTE: For systems with Management HTTP Server 4.x and earlier, Configure or Repair Agents
adds the Administrator password in the Management HTTP Server store and modifies the SNMP
settings but cannot change trust relationship information.
Select the checkbox beside Import Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate for HP SIM to trust the HP
SMH of the managed system. This option is only valid for HP-UX and Linux operating systems.
• Configure Version Control Agent (VCA) Select this option to configure the HP VCA to point to
the HP 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, HP-UX,
and Linux.
To configure HP VCA:
1. In the Select the system where the HP VCRM is installed field, select a server from the
dropdown list.
2. In the User Name field, enter the user name to access the HP VCRM. This user cannot be the
default administrator user, and must have administrative privileges.
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