Installation Manual

Installing the Management Server on Microsoft Windows54
Manager service aware of these changes. If you do not, the HP Systems Insight Manager service
will not start and you will not be able to use HP SIM.
To change the service account credentials for the HP Systems Insight Manager service:
1. Right-click the HP Systems Insight Manager service from the services panel.
2. Select Properties from the drop-down menu.
3. Click the Log On tab.
4. Change the user name (This account) and password on the Log On tab to match the information
for the new credentials. If the host is in a domain, specify the account using the
domain\username format.
Important Information About Changing the SIM_MANAGER
Password
The information Storage Essentials and HP SIM share is stored in a database with the user name
SIM_MANAGER and the default password quake. For security reasons, it is strongly recommended
you change the password for this database.
NOTE: This step only applies if Storage Essentials and HP SIM are sharing the same Oracle
database and HP SIM is using the Oracle appiq instance.
Make sure you keep the new password for SIM_MANAGER in a safe location, as it is your
responsibility to remember the Oracle passwords.
The management server requires the password to have the following characteristics:
• a minimum of three characters
• starts with a letter
• contains only letters, numbers and underscores (_)
• does not start or end with an underscore (_)
To change the password for SIM_MANAGER:
1. Log onto the server running Storage Essentials.
2. Stop the AppStorManager service if it is started.
3. Log onto the server running HP SIM.
4. Stop the HP SIM service so that it can not access the database.
IMPORTANT: Be sure the HP SIM service does not access the Oracle database before you
finish changing the password for the Oracle database.
5. Enter the following at the command prompt:
C:\> mxpassword -m -x MxDBUserPassword=mynewPass
where mynewPass is your new password for the Oracle database.