HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

• Configuring managed systems
• Configuring the WMI Mapper Proxy
• Configuring privilege elevation on HP-UX
• Configuring e-mail settings
• Configuring automatic discovery
Related topics
• Using the First Time Wizard
• Operating-system-specific collections, reports, and tools
• Discovery and identification
• Configuring automatic discovery general settings
• Configuring HP SIM with storage systems
Configuring managed systems
The Configure Managed Systems page in the First Time Wizard enables you to configure managed
systems as they are discovered and to specify parameters for running the Configure or Repair Agents. This
step is skipped if you did not configure discovery on the First Time Wizard Discovery page. All steps are
optional and can be configured from the HP SIM Options menu at a later time. To skip this step, click Next
to go to the next First Time Wizard step.
To configure managed systems from the First Time Wizard Configure Managed Systems page:
1. Select Configure newly managed systems when they are first discovered..
2. To specify credentials to configure the managed system for WBEM / WMI, SNMP, and SSH, select
from the following:
• Use the sign in credentials already entered in HP SIM This account must be an account with
administrative privileges.
• Use these credentials Select this option to use another user name and password pair other than
the one entered into HP SIM.
3. Under Configure WBEM / WMI, select from the following:
• Create subscriptions to WBEM events
• Send a test WBEM / WMI indication to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager to make sure
that events appear in HP Systems Insight Manager events lists
• Use an HP SIM WBEM certificate (good for 10 years) rather than username/password to manage
the system
4. Under Configure SNMP, select from the following:
• Set read community string
• Set traps to refer to this instance of HP SIM A read/write string is automatically created on
Windows systems.
• Send a test SNMP trap to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager to make sure events appear
in the HP SIM event lists
5. Under Configure secure shell (SSH) access, select from the following:
• Host based authentication All users from this instance of HP SIM are authenticated on the managed
system.
• Each user has to be authenticated on the managed system Each user must be authenticated on
the managed system.
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