HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

Configuring the managed system software
The HP SIM Configure or Repair Agents tool is a quick and easy way to configure Linux, HP-UX and Windows
managed systems to communicate with HP SIM from a Linux CMS.
NOTE: It is possible to manually configure Linux systems. See Setting up Linux managed systems manually.
To run Configure or Repair Agents remotely against multiple systems simultaneously, you must have
authorizations to run the Configure or Repair Agents tool.
You must have full CMS configuration privileges to modify the HP SIM community strings in the node security
file. In addition, you must enter root or administrator level user credentials for the target system.
To configure agents remotely:
Consistent with many other HP SIM tools, the Configure or Repair Agents tool can be configured to run
automatically on a schedule, or you can run it manually. Only one instance of Configure or Repair Agents
tool can run at a time.
Setting up Linux managed systems manually
You can use the HP SIM Configure or Repair Agents tool to configure Linux managed systems simultaneously,
or you can configure each managed system manually.
To manually configure Linux managed systems, perform the following on each managed system:
1. Install and configure SSH.
a. Verify that SSH is installed on the managed system:
rpm -qa | grep ssh
If it is not installed, see your Linux provider for information about installing SSH.
b. On the CMS, copy the SSH generated public key from the CMS to the managed system, and place
it in the authorized keys file of the execute-as user (root or administrator).
Important: On a non-English CMS, ensure that an administrator account (spelled exactly as follows,
administrator) exists on the CMS, and that mxagentconfig has been run on the CMS for the
created administrator account.
i. Launch the Manage SSH Keys dialog box from the CMS command prompt:
mxagentconfig -a -n hostname -u username -p Password
ii. Click Connect.
2. Configure the system to send SNMP traps.
Note: These steps might vary slightly, depending on your version of Linux. See your Linux provider for
details if these file paths and file names do not exist on your system.
a. Verify that SNMP is installed:
rpm -qa | grep snmp
If it is not installed, see your Linux provider for information about installing SNMP.
b. Stop the HP Server and Management Drivers and Agents daemons on the platform where you are
installing HP SIM using the following command:
/etc/init.d/hpasm stop
Note: If the HP Server Management Drivers and Agents daemon is not installed, omit this step and
step F.
c. Stop the SNMP daemon:
/etc/init.d/snmpd stop
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