Getting started with HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 or greater in a smaller Windows environment

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For this
section, the following must be considered:
–
Create subscription to WBEM events, so that WBEM events will be sent to the CMS.
–
Send a sample WBEM / WMI indication to this instance of
Systems Insight Manager
to test
that events appear in
Systems Insight Manager
in the Event list or All Event User Interface for
the selected system.
Note
:
The indication will appear as an
Inform
ational Event
in the
Event List
of
Systems Insight Manager
.
This is supported only on HP
-
UX and Windows managed systems with
WBEM provider installed.
–
Use a
Systems Insight Manager
WBEM certificate (good for 10 years) rather than
username/password to man
age the system. This option deploys a WBEM certificate to the
managed system and is only valid for HP
-
UX systems.
–
Configure a non
-
administrative account for
Systems Insight Manager
to access WMI data.
This option applies to Windows
systems with HP WBEM pr
oviders. The configuration of the
managed system updates to allow the specified user to access WMI information over the
network.
Systems Insight Manager
uses this user to read inventory and configuration
information from the system and is configured as the
WBEM user in the System Credentials. If
Systems Insight Manager
is configured with a user with administrative rights, this
configuration step is not necessary.
Systems Insight Manager
does not create this user. The
user already exists as either a domain u
ser or one local to the managed system.
The user is added to the DCOM Users group on the managed system and has read
-
only
access to WMI information, and read
-
write permissions to the HPQ name space. This user
does not need to be an administrator of the ma
naged system and or have sign
-
in rights. The
domain administrator should create a special domain account.
To enter the credentials for
Systems Insight Manager
to use to access the managed systems:
1.
In the
User name
field, enter a user name.
2.
In the
Passwor
d
field
, enter the
password
.
3.
In the
Password (Verify)
field, re
-
enter the password.
4.
In the
Domain
field, enter the Windows domain if the target belongs to a domain.
If configuring a non
-
administrative user is successful, then these credentials are saved
as
the System Credentials for WBEM access in
Systems Insight Manager
.

Configure SNMP
—
enables you to configure
SNMP
settings.
a.
Select
Set read community string
to specify a community string. By default,
Systems Insight
Manager
first communit
y string, that is not public, appears in the field. If no community string
exists in
Systems Insight Manager
, you must enter one.
If only HP
-
UX systems with default SNMP installation are being configured at this time, you need
not set this option. HP
-
UX e
nables read by default (get
-
community
-
name is set to public by default
on HP
-
UX systems).
If this option is selected, the
Read Only
community string is added to the target systems. If the
target system is SUSE Linux or Microsoft Windows 2003, the managed
systems do not always