HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

NOTE: For additional information about the individual commands, see the associated manpage on an
HP-UX and Linux system or the Windows command line help where the command tool is installed.
NOTE: Command line tools provided by HP-UX and Linux, such as the ls and df commands, are run as
root by default. For security reasons, you might want them to run as a specific user to avoid permitting
unintended capabilities to a user.
To launch a command line tool:
1. Choose one of the following:
• Select Tools→Command Line Tools→UNIX/Linux for Linux or UNIX command line tools.
• Select Tools→Command Line Tools→Windows for Windows command line tools.
2. Select the command line tool that you want to run, and follow the steps to launch the tool. See “Creating
a task” for assistance with the steps.
3. Click Run Now to launch the tool.
Command line interface
Use the mxexec command to launch these command tools on one or more systems from the command line
interface. For assistance with this command, see the associated manpage. See “Using command line interface
commands” for information about accessing the manpage.
Related topics
• Using command line interface commands
• Managing with tasks
• Viewing task results
Configuring or repairing agents
Overview
Managed systems must be able to communicate status to the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) Central
Management Server (CMS) in order for commands to be launched to the managed systems. To configure
the managed systems to communicate with the CMS, common configurations and trust relationships must be
configured. The Configure or Repair Agents feature enables you to configure or repair agents in Windows,
Linux, and HP-UX.
The Configure or Repair Agents tool enables you to repair Simple Network Management Protocol settings
and trust relationships that exist between HP Systems Insight Manager and target systems if you have 7.2
agents or later installed. If you have 7.1 agents or earlier installed, you can update Web Agent passwords
on target systems.
The Configure or Repair Agents feature adds the security and trap community strings and trust settings to
the target systems, but it does not replace existing settings. To replace the existing settings on target systems,
use the Replicate Agent Settings feature in HP Systems Insight Manager.
You can use Configure or Repair Agents tool to send test SNMP traps from Windows systems with HP Insight
Management Agents and send test Web-Based Enterprise Management indications from Windows and
HP-UX systems with HP WBEM provider installed.
You can also configure WBEM certificates for HP-UX systems and WBEM/WMI users for Windows systems
with HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008.
The Configure or Repair Agents feature on a Windows CMS, also enables you to install various agents and
providers on a ProLiant or Itanium-based system with Windows operating system. It can install:
• HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003/2008
• OpenSSH
• HP Version Control Agent (VCA) for Windows
• HP Insight Management Agents for Windows
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