Getting started with HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 or greater in a smaller Windows environment

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To configure managed systems from the First Time Wizard Configure Managed Systems page:
1.
Select
C
onfigure 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
Systems Insight Manager
. This accou
nt should
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
Systems Insight Manager
.
3.
Under
Configure WBEM/WMI
, select from the following:
–
Crea
te subscriptions for WBEM events
.
–
Send a test WBEM or WMI indication to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager to
ensure that events appear in
Systems Insight Manager events lists
.
–
Use a
Systems Insight Manager
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 strings.
–
Set traps to refer to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager.
–
Send a test SNMP trap to this instance of HP Systems Ins
ight Manager to make sure events
appear in the HP Systems Insight Manager events lists.
5.
Under
Configure secure shell (SSH)
access, select from the following:
–
Host based authentication.
All users from this instance of
Systems Insight Manager
are
authorize
d on the managed system.
–
Each user has to be authenticated on the managed system.
Each user must be authenticated
on the managed system.
6.
Select
Trust relationship
to set a trust relationship between managed systems and
CMS
.
This
enables
Systems Insight Ma
nager
users to connect to HP SMH, Onboard Administrator, iLO
(version 2 and later), and HP VCA using the
Systems Insight Manager
certificate for
authentication.
7.
To go to the next
First Time Wizard
step, click
Next
, or to return to the previous step, click
Previous.
Configuring WMI Mapper
WBEM is used by
Systems Insight Manager
to identify and communicate with managed systems.
Therefore, on Windows systems, a WMI Mapper Proxy must be configured for this communication to
take place.
1.
Enter the WMI Mapper Prox
y host name and port number. The user name and password
credentials must be entered on the First Time Wizard
Configure Managed Systems
page.
2.
To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click [
Next
], or to return to the previous step, click
[
Previous
].
Confi
guring
privilege
elevation on HP
-
UX
From this page, you can enable privilege elevation for Linux, HP
-
UX, and ESX managed systems. This
enables you to sign in as an unprivileged user and elevate the privilege to run on these operating
systems.
You can also
configure privilege elevation from the
Systems Insight Manager
menu by selecting
Options

Security

Privilege Elevation
.
1.
Choose one of the following: