HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

To enter the credentials for HP SIM to use to access the managed systems:
1. In the User name field, enter a user name.
2. In the Password field, enter the password for the user's name previously entered.
3. In the Password (Verify) field, re-enter the password exactly as it was entered in the
Password field.
4. In the Domain field, enter the Windows domain if the target belongs to a domain.
If configuring a non-administrative user is successful, then these credentials are saved as
the System Protocol settings for WBEM access in HP SIM.
• Configure SNMP. This section enables you to configure SNMP settings.
For this section, the following must be considered:
a. 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.
b. Select Set traps to refer to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager in the target
systems SNMP Trap Destination List. This setting enables the target systems to send SNMP
traps to this instance of HP SIM.
c. 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.
Note: The trap will appear as a Generic Trap from the system. This event will appear as an
Informational Event in the Event List of HP SIM.
• Configure secure shell (SSH) access. Select this option to configure SSH access on managed systems.
If this option is selected, you must select one of the following options:
• Host based authentication for SSH
Note: For this option to work, the user name and password provided in step 2 must be an
administrative level account. For Linux or HP-UX targets, it must be the "root" account and
password.
• Each user has to be authenticated on the managed system
Note: If you do not want all users that have login access to HP SIM to run the tool and you
would like to control which users need to have access, this option is more secure.
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