HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

a. Enter the user name and password.
b. To use other credentials if the assigned credentials fail, check If these credentials fail, try
other credentials that may apply. Click the Learn more link for additional information.
By default this box is not selected, unless you have upgraded HP SIM.
• Replace WS-MAN credentials individually as follows Use this option to specify sign-in credentials
individually for selected systems.
a. Enter the user name and password for the individual systems.
b. To use other credentials if the assigned credentials fail, check Try others. On new installations,
this is not selected by default. However, for upgrades, the box is selected for migrated systems.
This option appears for each password entered.
8. To save changes and start identification in the background, click OK. To cancel changes, click Cancel.
Related procedures
• Sign-in credentials
• SNMP credentials
• WBEM credentials
• SSH credentials
• Single sign on credentials
Related topics
▲ System credentials
Credentials used in HP SIM
All the credentials pages include a Try Others checkbox. When the Try Others checkbox is selected, when
the current credential fails, the task can continue by trying other applicable credentials. The checkbox is left
unchecked by default.
If Try Others is checked then the credentials will be applied in the following order:
System-level protocol specific→System-level Sign-in→Discovery-level protocol
specific→Discovery-level Sign-in→Global sign-in.
Related topics
• System credentials
• Global credentials
162 HP SIM credentials