HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

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Learn More - Configuring a non-administrative account for HP SIM to access WMI
data
Configure a non-administrative account for HP SIM to access WMI data. This option is applicable to
Windows systems with HP WBEM providers. The configuration of the managed system will be updated to
allow the specified user to access WMI information over the network. This user will be used by HP SIM to
read inventory and configuration information from the system and will be configured as the WBEM user in
the System Protocol settings. This configuration step is not necessary if HP SIM is configured with a user with
administration rights. This user is not created by HP SIM. The user should already exist as either a domain
user or one local to the managed system.
The user will be added to the "DCOM Users” group on the managed system and will be given read-only
access to WMI information, plus read-write permissions to the HPQ name space. This user does not need
to be an administrator of the managed system and need not have logon rights. A special purpose domain
account is recommended, and should be created by the domain administrator.
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Learn More - Configuring SNMP
Select Set read community string to specify a community string. By default, the first HP SIM first community
string, that is not public, appears in the field. If no community string exists in HP SIM, you must enter one.
If only HP-UX systems with default SNMP installation are being configured at this time, you do not need to
set this option. HP-UX enables read by default (get-community-name is set to public by default on HP-UX
systems).
If this option is selected, the Read Only community string is added to the target systems. If the target system
is SuSE Linux or Microsoft Windows 2003, the managed systems do not always enable SNMP communication
between themselves and a remote host. This setting is modified to enable the instance of the HP SIM system
to communicate using SNMP with these target systems.
You can enter a community string up to 255 characters.
Repairing the SNMP settings adds a Read Write community string to the target system only if one does not
currently exist. This community string is unique for each system, is composed of over 30 characters to include
letters and numbers, and is only visible to the user with administrator privileges for that system. This Read
Write community string is required by the Web Agent to perform certain threshold setting capabilities. This
community string is only used locally on the target system and is not used by HP SIM over the network. Linux
and HP-UX systems do not require a Read Write community string; hence the Read Write community is
added on Windows systems only.
Select Send a sample SNMP trap to this instance of the HP SIM to test that events appear in HP SIM
event lists to verify that SNMP events appear in the HP SIM events list.
To successfully send a test trap, you must configure target systems to send a trap to this instance.
Note: A test trap can be sent only from a Windows managed system with HP Insight Management Agent
installed. If you attempt to run this task on a Linux or HP-UX managed system, a message displays indicating
the operation is not supported.
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