HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

The system identification process attempts each user name and password pair until a successful response
is obtained. Future WBEM requests to a system will use the user name and password that succeeded
the system identification process. For Windows-based systems, the user name must include the domain
name, for example, domainname\username .
Enter the user name and password pairs such that root and administrator passwords are listed first and
user and guest passwords are listed second. This order minimizes the search time.
2. In the WMI Mapper Proxy section, enter the mapper proxy Hostname and Port Number. If a WMI
Mapper Proxy has already been discovered, it appears here.
If you have selected not to manage Windows systems on the previous page, this section is not displayed.
3. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click Next, or to return to the previous step, click Previous
to return to the previous step.
The users that are used for WBEM access do not need to be configured to sign-in.
Entering SNMP settings
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) uses SNMP to communicate with managed systems . Community strings
establish the authentication that enables communication between HP SIM and a managed system. You can
enter read community strings in the First Time Wizard, or from the HP SIM menu bar. To disable SNMP
communication, enter community strings, or control other SNMP settings not available in the wizard, select
Options→Protocol Settings→Global Protocol Settings from the HP SIM menu.
If you do not have SNMP systems in your network, it is not necessary to enter information here. If you have
SNMP systems and you do not enter read community strings that match these systems, HP SIM does not
discover them.
See the HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/
management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for information about fine-tuning protocol settings for a single system
or a group of similar systems.
To enter SNMP settings from the First Time Wizard SNMP page:
1. In the Read community string field, enter up to 10 read community strings. This value is case-sensitive.
The identification process attempts communication with a system, using each of these communities in
succession until a successful response is obtained. Future SNMP requests then use the community string
that provided a successful response.
If you have SNMP systems and no read community string that match the systems are entered, the systems
will not be discovered.
2. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click Next, or to return to the previous step, click Previous.
Enabling automatic system discovery
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) uses automatic discovery to find and identify systems on the network.
The System Automatic Discovery task is the default discovery task and is disabled by default. You can enable
and configure the System Automatic Discovery task in the First Time Wizard, or by selecting
Options→Discovery from the HP SIM menu.
If the System Automatic Discovery task is enabled, it runs immediately when the First Time Wizard is finished
to initially populate the HP SIM database.
You can create additional automatic discovery tasks by selecting Options→Discovery from the HP SIM
menu and entering the details, and you can also run manual discovery to discover single systems.
To enable automatic system discovery from the First Time Wizard Discovery page:
1. To configure HP SIM to run discovery immediately after you finish the First Time Wizard, select Run
discovery once after wizard finishes.
2. To configure the System Automatic Discovery task to run on a regular schedule, select Schedule and
enter the periodic run interval and time of day to run the task.
3. In the Ping inclusion ranges, system (hosts) names, templates, and/or hosts files field, specify
the IP addresses to include for pinging. If you want to use this task to discover SMI-S storage systems ,
include the IP address of each SMI CIMOM . You can also enter Simple or Fully Qualified Domain
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