HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

is composed of over 30 characters to include letters and numbers, 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
used locally only on the target system and is not used by HP SIM over the network. Linux and
HP-UX systems do not require a Read Write community string. The Read Write community
string is added on Windows systems only.
b. Select Set traps to refer to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager in the target
systems SNMP Trap Destination List. This setting enables the target systems to send SNMP
traps to this instance of HP SIM.
c. Select Send a sample SNMP trap to this instance of the HP SIM to test that events
appear in HP SIM event lists to verify that SNMP events appear in the HP SIM events list.
To successfully send a test trap, you must configure target systems to send a trap to this
instance.
NOTE: You can send a test trap only from a managed system with an HP Insight Management
Agent installed.
NOTE: The trap from Windows appears as a Generic Trap from the system and is listed as
a Major Event in the Event List of HP SIM. The trap received from Linux and HP-UX targets
appears as a Cold Trap and is listed as Informational Events in the Event List of HP SIM.
• Configure secure shell (SSH) access Select this option to configure SSH access on managed
systems.
If you select this option, you must select one of the following options:
• Host based authentication for SSH
NOTE: 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
NOTE: If you do not want all users that have sign-in access to HP SIM to run the tool and
you would like to control which users need to have access, this option is more secure.
NOTE: You can configure SSH only if the OpenSSH service is running on the managed
systems. You can install OpenSSH on Windows systems by running the Install Open SSH
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 relationship with the HP SIM.
For HP SIM on the target systems, this option sets the trust mode to Trust by Cer tificate and copies
the HP SIM system certificate to the target system trusted certificate directory. This option enables
HP SIM users to connect to the HP SMH using the certificate for authentication. For more information,
see “Trusted certificates”.
NOTE: If you experience problems setting the trust status on a Linux managed system, for
assistance, see “Troubleshooting” .
You can configure SSO to management processors for Onboard Administrator and for iLO2. To
configure SSO, select Set Trust Relationship. After you configure SSO, you are not continually
prompted to supply the login credentials for the management processor.
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