HP Systems Insight Manager 6.2 User Guide

3 Setting up managed systems
Setting up managed systems involves installing the required Management Agents software and configuring
the supported protocols to communicate with the Systems Insight Manager software.
Setting up Windows servers to be managed by Systems Insight Manager
To be fully managed by Systems Insight Manager, HP ProLiant servers running Windows should have the
Insight Management Agents or HP WBEM Providers installed. These agents are part of the ProLiant Support
Pack. See below for instructions on how to do this through Systems Insight Manager. You can also configure
these agents to be installed as part of your normal operating system deployment procedures. For third party
servers, enable WMI and/or SNMP in the operating system. Systems Insight Manager attempts to retrieve
information that is instrumented in an industry-standard way. After setting up the management agents on the
managed systems, the remaining configuration can be done from the Systems Insight Manager user interface.
Continue to Chapter 4 Credentials for further information.
For more information regarding ProLiant Support Pack, see the http://www.hp.com/servers/psp.
Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on a Systems Insight Manager Windows systems
for the first time
The Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install task enables you to install a ProLiant Support Pack from a Windows
CMS to a Windows managed system when you do not have any Insight Management Agents, especially
the HP Version Control Agent, installed. This task also configures the systems to use the trust certificate from
Systems Insight Manager and the setting to use the desired HP Version Control Repository Manager.
Requirements
• The Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install feature is only supported on a Windows CMS.
• The target system must be a Windows system.
• VCRM must be installed and populated on servers containing a repository.
• You must have Windows administrator privileges on target systems to install a ProLiant Support Pack.
• Only one Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install task can be run at a time. If you execute a second task
before the first one is complete, the second task starts after the first task completes.
Installing the ProLiant Support Pack
Procedure 3-1 Installing the ProLiant Support Pack
1. Select Deploy→Deploy Drivers, Firmware and Agents→Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install.
The Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install page appears.
2. Select the target systems. For more information about selecting target systems, see the Systems Insight
Manager online help.
3. Click Next.The Enter Windows credentials page appears.
4. On the Enter Windows credentials page, complete the following:
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