Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

7. Configure and execute discovery.
Discovery is the process that HP SIM uses to find and identify the systems on your network and populate
the database with that information. To configure and execute a discovery, you must create a Discovery
task. HP SIM ships includes one default discovery task (Discovery). However, you can create a new
discovery task to discover specific systems.
To configure Discovery, select Options→Discovery.
8. Configure the WMI Mapper.
In order for HP SIM to manage Windows systems, you must install the Pegasus WMI Mapper service
on a Windows system. To configure the WMI Mapper, select Options→Protocol Settings→WMI
Mapper Proxy.
For more information on the Options menu items, see the HP SIM help system.
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 on 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 on 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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