HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

For groups of systems:
1. Enter as many default user names and passwords as needed by clicking Add. To delete user name and
password pairs, click Delete beside the pair you want to delete.
If you selected to delete a user name and password pair for a group of systems, select how you want
to delete them. Select from the following:
• Delete the credentials and any working references to them
• First copy the credentials to all systems referencing them, then delete the global credentials
2. (Optional) To try additional credentials, select Try Others.
3. Click OK.
WS-MAN credentials
To access the WS-MAN tab, click Show advanced protocol credentials.
For a single system:
1. Enter the user name and password.
2. 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.
3. Click OK.
For groups of systems:
1. Enter as many default user names and passwords as needed by clicking Add. To delete user name and
password pairs, click Delete beside the pair you want to delete.
If you selected to delete a user name and password pair for a group of systems, select how you want
to delete them. Select from the following:
• Delete the credentials and any working references to them
• First copy the credentials to all systems referencing them, then delete the global credentials
2. (Optional) To try additional credentials, select Try Others.
3. Click OK.
Related procedures
• Creating a new discovery task
• Sign-in credentials
• SNMP credentials
Configuring Configure or Repair Agents for discovery tasks
This procedure enables you to configure Configure or Repair Agents settigs when creating or editing a
discovery task for a single system. Perform these steps from the New Discovery Task or the Edit Discovery
Task sections of the Discovery page.
1. To create an associated Configure or Repair Agents task, click Configure/Repair. The Configure or
Repair Agents task runs on the managed systems that are discovered when the discovery task runs. The
Configure or Repair Agents task runs only on new systems when they are discovered.
To disable the Configure or Repair Agents task, select Configure newly managed systems when
they are first discovered in the Configure Managed Systems section. See “Configuring managed
systems” for more information.
98 Discovery and identification