HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

• WS-MAN This tab enables you to set WS-MAN credentials for all selected systems or set the credentials
individually for each system.
• SSH This tab enables you to configure SSH credentials for all selected systems or set the credentials
individually for each system.
• Single Sign On This tab enables you to set the trust by certificate relationship.
The System Credentials page is launched as a tool and accesses the task wizard for system selection. If
you are not authorized to configure system credentials on the selected systems, you cannot schedule or run
the tool.
System credentials are not included in the Quick Launch menu by default, but can be added by customizing
the menu. To customize the Quick Launch menu, click Customize in the Quick Launch menu.
All system credentials that have been used successfully by identification to access managed systems appear
when you select System Credentials. The Source column displays where the credential originated from.
For credentials that were created from the Discovery page, Discovery group: subnet specified appears.
For credentials that were created from the Global Credentials page, Global appears. For credentials that
were created from System Credentials page, System appears. As certificates are generated on the CMS,
the Credential column for a certificate displays Certificate and the Source column displays HP Systems
Insight Manager. If more than one user name is the same in Global Credentials, a number is appended to
the display user name in the Credentials column, that shows which it is in the series. This number is used
to distinguish the credentials for display purposes only.
System credentials are applied in the following order:
1. System level protocol specific
2. System level Sign-in
3. Discovery level protocol specific
4. Discovery level protocol Sign-in
5. Global Sign-in
Viewing systems credentials
The table displays all credentials for each system that was selected in the system credentials table.
1. Select Options→Security→Credentials→System Credentials.
2. Select target systems. See “Creating a task” for more information.
3. Click Run Now. The System Credentials page appears.
4. To view systems credentials, select systems and click View system credentials.
Editing systems credentials
1. Select Options→Security→Credentials→System Credentials.
2. Select target systems. See “Creating a task” for more information.
3. Click Run Now. The System Credentials page appears.
4. To edit system credentials, select systems and click Edit system credentials.
When the you click OK, data from all tabs is collected and the appropriate action is taken.
The Sign-in and SNMP tabs are the only two tabs visible after clicking Edit system credentials. The
Sign-in tab refers to the protocol independent credential. To access protocol specific credentials, you must
click Show advanced protocol credentials. You can either set credentials for all protocols for all the
selected systems, or set credentials for protocols individually for each system. A maximum of 10 systems can
be edited individually at one time.
Deleting system credentials
1. Edit a system or group of systems with existing credentials.
2. Make all of the credential information for the system blank. For multiple systems, you must make all of
the credentials for each system blank.
3. To delete cleared credentials, click OK.
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