HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 User Guide

Changing the HP SIM and HP Insight Control database credentials.....................................97
Changing the database authorizations for Matrix OE and HP Operations Orchestration....97
Reconfiguring the CMS to use a different database................................................................98
Dependencies...............................................................................................................98
Warning......................................................................................................................98
Changing the database associated with the CMS..............................................................98
20 Understanding HP SIM security...........................................................100
Securing communication...................................................................................................100
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)............................................................................................100
How to configure ciphers.........................................................................................100
Secure Shell (SSH).......................................................................................................100
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)....................................................................100
Secure Task Execution (STE) and Single Sign-On (SSO)....................................................100
Distributed Task Facility (DTF)........................................................................................101
WBEM......................................................................................................................101
LDAP.........................................................................................................................101
RMI...........................................................................................................................101
Credentials management..................................................................................................101
SSL certificates............................................................................................................101
HP SIM main certificate...........................................................................................101
HP SIM SSO certificate............................................................................................102
WBEM certificate...................................................................................................102
Upgrading to HP SIM 7.2........................................................................................102
Certificate expiration and Certificate Revocation Check (CRL Check)..................................102
Source of client and server certificates.......................................................................102
Enabling or disabling certificate revocation check.......................................................103
Offline and online mode of certificate revocation check...............................................103
Offline mode....................................................................................................103
Online mode....................................................................................................103
CRL distribution points.............................................................................................103
Warning or error....................................................................................................104
Conditions for warning............................................................................................104
Customizable properties..........................................................................................104
Certificate sharing.......................................................................................................104
SSH keys....................................................................................................................104
Passwords..................................................................................................................105
Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server server authorizations........................................105
Browser..........................................................................................................................106
SSL............................................................................................................................106
Cookies.....................................................................................................................106
Passwords..................................................................................................................106
Password warnings......................................................................................................106
Browser session...........................................................................................................107
Internet Explorer zones.................................................................................................107
System link format.......................................................................................................107
Operating-system dependencies.........................................................................................107
User accounts and authentication..................................................................................107
File system..................................................................................................................108
Background processes.................................................................................................108
Windows Cygwin.......................................................................................................108
HP-UX and Linux.........................................................................................................108
HP SIM database.............................................................................................................108
Configuring the SQL Server to enable SSL connection on database in HP SIM.....................108
Installing a certificate on a server with Microsoft Management Consold (MMC)..............109
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