HP Systems Insight Manager 7.3 Update 1 User Guide

Reconfiguring the CMS host name and primary IP address...............................................100
Reconfiguring the CMS database credentials.......................................................................100
Dependencies.............................................................................................................101
Warning....................................................................................................................101
Changing the HP SIM and HP Insight Control database credentials...................................101
Changing the database authorizations for Matrix OE and HP Operations Orchestration...101
Reconfiguring the CMS to use a different database..............................................................102
Dependencies.............................................................................................................102
Warning....................................................................................................................102
Changing the database associated with the CMS............................................................102
20 Understanding HP SIM security...........................................................104
Securing communication...................................................................................................104
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)............................................................................................104
How to configure ciphers.........................................................................................104
Secure Shell (SSH).......................................................................................................104
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)....................................................................104
Secure Task Execution (STE) and Single Sign-On (SSO)....................................................104
Distributed Task Facility (DTF)........................................................................................105
WBEM......................................................................................................................105
LDAP.........................................................................................................................105
RMI...........................................................................................................................105
Credentials management..................................................................................................105
SSL certificates............................................................................................................105
HP SIM main certificate...........................................................................................105
HP SIM SSO certificate............................................................................................106
WBEM certificate...................................................................................................106
Upgrading to HP SIM 7.3.1......................................................................................106
Certificate expiration and Certificate Revocation Check (CRL Check)..................................106
Source of client and server certificates.......................................................................106
Enabling or disabling certificate revocation check.......................................................107
Offline and online mode of certificate revocation check...............................................107
Offline mode....................................................................................................107
Online mode....................................................................................................107
CRL distribution points.............................................................................................107
Warning or error....................................................................................................108
Conditions for warning............................................................................................108
Customizable properties..........................................................................................108
Certificate sharing.......................................................................................................108
SSH keys....................................................................................................................108
Passwords..................................................................................................................109
Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server server authorizations........................................109
Browser..........................................................................................................................110
SSL............................................................................................................................110
Cookies.....................................................................................................................110
Passwords..................................................................................................................110
Password warnings......................................................................................................110
Browser session...........................................................................................................111
Internet Explorer zones.................................................................................................111
System link format.......................................................................................................111
Operating-system dependencies.........................................................................................111
User accounts and authentication..................................................................................111
File system..................................................................................................................112
Background processes.................................................................................................112
Windows Cygwin.......................................................................................................112
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