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

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enable SNMP communication between themselves and a remote host. This setting is modified to
enable the instance of the
Systems Insight Manager
system to communicate using SNMP with
these target systems.
You can enter a community stri
ng up to 255 characters.
Repairing the SNMP settings adds a
Read Write
community string to the target system only if one
does not currently exist. This community string is unique for each system, is composed of over 30
characters to include letters and nu
mbers, and is visible only to the user with administrator
privileges for that system. This
Read Write
community string is required by the Web Agent to
perform certain threshold setting capabilities. This community string is only used locally on the
target
system and is not used by
Systems Insight Manager
over the network. Linux and HP
-
UX
systems do not require a
Read Write
community string; hence the
Read Write
community is
added on Windows systems only.
b.
Select
Set traps
to refer to this instance of HP Sys
tems Insight Manager
in the target systems'
SNMP Trap Destination List
. This setting enables the target systems to send
SNMP traps
to this
instance of
Systems Insight Manager
.
c.
Select
Send a sample SNMP trap to this instance of the
Systems Insight Manager
to test that
events appear in
Systems Insight Manager
event lists
to verify that SNMP events appear in the
Systems Insight Manager
events list.
To successfully send a test trap, you must configure target systems to send a trap to this
instance. You can se
nd a test trap only from a managed system with an HP Insight
Management Agent installed.
The trap from Windows appears as a Generic Trap from the system and is listed as a Major
Event in the Event List of
Systems Insight Manager
.

Configure secure shell (
SSH) access
.
Select this option to configure SSH access on managed
systems.
If this option is selected, you must select one of the following options:
–
Host based authentication for SSH
.
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
If you do not want all users that have sign
-
in access to
Systems Insight Manager
t
o run the tool
and you would like to control which users need to have access, this option is more secure.
SSH can be configured only if the OpenSSH service is running on the managed systems.
OpenSSH can be installed on Windows systems, by running the Inst
all Open SSH as done in step
three 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 r
elationship with the System Management Homepage.
For
Systems Insight Manager
on the target systems, this option sets the trust mode to
Trust by
Certificate
and copies the
Systems Insight Manager
system certificate to the target system trusted
certificate
directory. This option enables
Systems Insight Manager
users to connect to the
System
Management Homepage
using the certificate for authentication.