HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

credentials to a rogue system disguised as your HP SIM system, or you might import a certificate from a
rogue system disguised as your HP SIM system and give your sign-in credentials to that rogue system.
If your browser is not configured with the SSL system certificate of the HP SIM system, a security alert regarding
a certificate of untrusted origin might appear when first browsing to HP SIM using SSL. If a security alert
appears, perform one of the following procedures:
• Use the browser to import the certificate into your browser. View the certificate by double-clicking the
lock icon ( ), and then installing the certificate. See “Importing a server certificate” for more
information.
• Export the HP SIM system certificate to a file by first browsing from a local browser on the HP SIM
system, and then manually importing it into the remote browser. See “Exporting a server certificate”
for more information.
• Sign in to the HP SIM system this time without a trusted certificate, but be sure to import the certificate
later. Your data is still encrypted.
After you have an SSL session established with HP SIM, all communications between the browser and HP
SIM are secure through SSL.
Logging in to the CLI
You can access the HP SIM CLI directly from the CMS or from any network client using SSH client software.
On an HP-UX or Linux CMS, you can log in to the operating system as any valid HP SIM user and use the
CLI. Not all CLI functionality is available to all users; some functions are only available to users with
administrative rights or operator rights on the CMS. On a Windows CMS, some commands require that the
user be a member of the local Administrators group. These commands include:
• mxagentconfig
• mxauth
• mxcert
• mxcollection
• mxexec
• mxglobalprotocolsettings
• mxglobalsettings
• mxlog
• mxmib
• mxngroup
• mxnode
• mxquery
• mxreport
• mxstm
• mxtask
• mxtool
• mxtoolbox
• mxuser
• mxwbemsub
Logging in to the CMS directly
1. Log in to the CMS using a valid user name and password ( SSH system name ).
HP SIM grants authorizations based on your operating system user login.
2. Open a terminal window or a command prompt window to execute HP SIM commands.
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