HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

NOTE: Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the implementation of WBEM from Microsoft.
See WMI for more information.
NOTE: The WBEM providers cannot be installed on HP-UX or Linux systems.
NOTE: A Common Information Model Object Manager (CIMOM) acts as the interface for
communication between WBEM providers and management applications such as HP Systems Insight
Manager.
The CMS must have the correct credentials to authenticate to WBEM and WMI. There are two ways
to authenticate client certificates:
• Basic authentication to WBEM Services or WMI using user name and password.
• Using the CMS certificate to authenticate is available only for HP-UX WBEM Services 02.05.00,
which supports client certificate authentication. Use the Configure or Repair Agents Use an HP
SIM WBEM certificate (good for 10 years) rather than username/password to manage the
system option to deploy a WBEM certificate to the managed system and is only valid for HP-UX
systems.
• WMI An API in the Windows operating system that enables systems in a network, typically enterprise
networks, to be managed and controlled.
The WMI Mapper Proxy is a configuration setting for WMI. The WMI Mapper receives client CIM/XML
WBEM requests and converts the requests to Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) requests.
The WMI results are converted to CIM/XML format and returned to the Central Management Server
(CMS). The discovery and Identification task uses the proxies in the WMI Mapper Proxy list to discover
whether a system is a WMI-enabled system. If the system is WMI-enabled, then the identification
information for that system based on that specific proxy is returned.
The WMI Mapper makes it possible to retrieve WMI instrumented data on a Windows machine through
WBEM requests. The Windows version of HP SIM installs this WMI Mapper locally so that it can make
WMI requests across the network to the systems without the need to install the WMI Mapper on the
managed Windows systems.
The WMI Mapper is included in a Typical install of the HP SIM on a Windows CMS (optional in a
Custom install) . For HP-UX and Linux-based systems, the WMI Mapper is not available.
Related topics
• Setting protocols and credentials for a system or groups of systems
• Setting protocols for a single system
• Setting global protocols
Related topics
• Global protocols
• Configuring or repairing agents
Learn More - Installing the SNMP Provider for Windows
One of the management protocols supported by HP SIM. Traditional management protocol used extensively
by networking systems and most servers. Management Information Base for Network Management of
TCP/IP-based internets (MIB-II) is the standard information available consistently across all vendors.
To obtain SNMP:
For Windows systems, if SNMP itself is not installed during the operating system installation, you can install
it from the Windows CD using Add Remove Windows Component feature.
To install the HP Insight SNMP agents for ProLiant systems running on Linux x86 operating system, go to
http://www.software.hp.com/ and select the ProLiant Support Pack 7.90.
NOTE:
The HP Insight SNMP agents cannot be installed on HP-UX systems.
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