Owner manual

Contents

1 Introduction...............................................................................................4

Overview................................................................................................................................4

Windows Management Instrumentation.......................................................................................4

2 Installing the HP WBEM Provider Components from Intelligent Provisioning (IP)

1.10 Software................................................................................................5

Installing the HP Service Pack Proliant (SPP) Package on Proliant Servers from IP 1.10 Software............5

3 Uninstalling the HP WBEM Provider Components from Proliant Servers..............6

Introduction..............................................................................................................................6

Uninstalling HP WBEM Provider Components Installed on a single local Proliant Server.....................6

Uninstalling HP WBEM Provider Components Installed on a single remote server..............................6

Scripting commands for uninstalling HP WBEM Providers...............................................................6

4 Using the SMH with the Insight Providers.......................................................8

Change Data Source................................................................................................................8

Auto Refresh............................................................................................................................8

Threshold settings.....................................................................................................................8

Data collection.........................................................................................................................9

5 Security...................................................................................................10

Security concerns....................................................................................................................10

Implementation.......................................................................................................................10

Best practices.........................................................................................................................10

Configuring Insight Provider Security for a User Account using HP SIM Configure and Repair

Agents..................................................................................................................................10

Configuring Insight Provider Security using the Windows Command Line........................................12

6 Windows Server® 2008 Firewall configuration............................................13

Firewall configuration introduction.............................................................................................13

Firewall configuration..............................................................................................................13

7 Insight Providers architecture......................................................................15

Architecture overview..............................................................................................................15

Data model...........................................................................................................................16

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition examples........................................................................19

Insight Providers usage............................................................................................................21

Additional documentation........................................................................................................21

8 Scripting.................................................................................................23

Scripting examples.................................................................................................................23

WMIC example.................................................................................................................23

Scripting references.................................................................................................................23

9 Troubleshooting Insight Provider and HP WBEM Tools...................................24

Accessing Insight Providers from a client tool or Insight Provider tools.............................................24

10 Technical support....................................................................................26

Reference documentation.........................................................................................................26

HP contact information............................................................................................................26

Acronyms and abbreviations.........................................................................27

Index.........................................................................................................28

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