HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

download from the openPegasus website does not include the hardware specific data for HP SIM to
manage Linux x86 systems.
NOTE: WMI is the implementation of WBEM from Microsoft. See WMI for more information.
To install the HP Insight Management WBEM Provider from the Manage Communications page,
select Quick Repair→Install Providers and Agents→Install WBEM/WMI Provider (HP Insight
Management WBEM Provider) for Windows.
NOTE: The WBEM providers cannot be installed on HP-UX or Linux systems.
NOTE: A CIMOM acts as the interface for communication between WBEM providers and management
applications such as HP SIM.
The CMS must have the correct credentials to authenticate to WBEM and WMI. To authenticate HP
SIM to a client:
• Use basic authentication to WBEM Services or WMI using user name and password.
• Use the CMS certificate only for HP-UX WBEM Services 02.05.00, which supports client certificate
authentication. Use the Configure or Repair Agents Use an HP SIM WBEM certificate (good
for 10 years) rather than username/password to manage the system option to deploy a
WBEM certificate to the managed system and is only valid for HP-UX systems.
• WMI An API in the Windows operating system that enables you to manage and control systems in
a network.
The WMI Mapper Proxy is a configuration setting for WMI. The WMI Mapper receives client CIM/XML
WBEM requests and converts the requests to WMI requests. The WMI results are converted to CIM/XML
format and returned to the CMS. The discovery and Identification task uses the proxies in the WMI
Mapper Proxy list to discover whether a system is a WMI-enabled system. If the system is WMI-enabled,
then the identification information for that system is returned.
The WMI Mapper can retrieve WMI instrumented data on a Windows machine through WBEM requests.
The Windows version of HP SIM installs this WMI Mapper locally so that it can make WMI requests
across the network to the systems without installing the WMI Mapper on the managed Windows systems.
The WMI Mapper is included in a typical installation of HP SIM on a Windows CMS. For HP-UX and
Linux-based CMSs, the WMI Mapper is not available.
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) One management protocol supported by HP SIM.
Traditional management protocol used extensively by networking systems and most servers. Management
Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets (MIB-II) is the standard information
available consistently across all vendors.
If SNMP is not part of the Windows operating system install, you can install it from the Windows CD
as a component. Verify on the target system that the SNMP service allows a remote connection from
the CMS. If there are different read community sets on the target system, ensure that the read community
string is configured in CMS SNMP protocol. To ensure that the Set read community string option in
Configure or Repair Agents is set to public, select Configure→Configure or Repair Agents. Step 4
of Configure or Repair Agents enables you to configure the Set read community string option. See
“Windows CMS” for additional information.
To install the HP Insight SNMP agents for ProLiant systems running on Linux x86 operating system, go
to www.software.hp.com and select the ProLiant Support Pack 7.90.
NOTE: The SNMP agents cannot be installed on HP-UX systems.
To install the SNMP provider from the Manage Communications page, select Quick Repair→Install
Providers and Agents→Install SNMP Agents (HP ProLiant Insight Management Agents) for
Windows.
To configure the write community string on the CMS, select Options→Protocol Settings→System
Protocol Settings from the HP SIM menu. To configure the community string for multiple systems,
select Options→Protocol Settings→Global Protocol Settings and set the write community string.
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