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

6
8.
Input
the required SNMP and security configuration
information
.
9.
Enter
the
Windows login credentials
for the target systems.
You must input a user name and
password that allows
Systems Insight Manager
to log
in to the
target systems. Click
Next
.
10.
Click
Run Now
. After the task is completed, the
Task Results
page identifies which configuration
operations have succeeded and which have failed.
Credentials

System
c
redentials
—
Credentials used by identification to access manag
ed systems. These
credentials include WBEM, WS
-
MAN, and SSH credentials, Sign
-
in, SNMP community string, and
Single Sign
-
On credentials.

Discovery task credentials
—
Credentials used by a discovery task that apply to all systems
discovered by that task.

Glob
al
c
redentials
—
C
redentials are system credentials that apply to all systems.
Authorizations
Only users with a valid user ID and password on the CMS can access and perform tasks on a
particular managed system or group of systems. Each user can perform tasks
using the tools in a
toolbox authorized for that particular user.
Systems Insight Manager
has
four default toolboxes
including the
All Tools
toolbox and the
Monitor Tools
toolbox. Users who are authorized to use the
All
Tools
toolbox can perform administr
ative tasks and can change the state of managed systems.
Authorize o
ccasional users or non
-
experts to use only the
Monitor Tools
toolbox.
Note:
This paper assumes that you have a small number of authorized users and
use only the default toolboxes. Note th
at toolboxes and authorizations can
be customized for environments with large numbers of users and different
security needs for different managed systems.
Secure access using a web browser
When you access
Systems Insight Manager
from a web browser, you mu
st sign in using a secure
sockets layer (SSL) connection. Your user name and password for
Systems Insight Manager
is the
same as your login credentials for the Windows operating system running on the CMS.
Systems
Insight Manager
uses operating system secur
ity and SSL to ensure strong authentication and data
encryption and to minimize the risk of unauthorized access to the management console.
Managing HP ProLiant 100 series servers
The HP ProLiant 100 series servers only support the HP Insight Management W
BEM Provider;
the HP
Insight Management Agent
is not supported. Additionally, health monitoring and alerting are more
limited with the ProLiant 100 series servers than through the ProLiant 300 series and above.
You
can view
the following information:

ROM
-
based SMBIOS tables populated by the ROM during Power On Self Test (POST)

Operating system
-
based information including MAC addresses, IP addresses, domain, operating
system version and serial number, last boot time, current running processes, and disk info
rmation

Standard operating system driver information including network, and logical and physical drive
storage
(from the operating system point of view)