HP Intelligent Management Center v5.2 Application Performance Manager Administrator Guide

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 Retries (1-5)—Enter how many times APM retries to send SSH packets to the Mac OS host.
Telnet parameters
 Edit Telnet Parameters—Select this option if you want to manually configure Telnet
parameters for APM. Make sure the Telnet settings are the same as those on Mac OS.
 Select an Existing Template—Select this option if you want to select an existing Telnet
template for APM. For information about setting Telnet parameter templates, see HP IMC
Base Platform Administrator Guide.
 Authentication Mode—Select the authentication mode for Telnet users. Options include
Password (No Operator or Super/Manager), Username + Password, Super/Manager
Password, Password + Super/Manager Password (No Operator), Username + Password +
Super/Manager Password, No Username + No Password, and Username + No Password.
The following parameters to be configured vary with authentication modes.
 Username—Enter the Telnet username. The user must have the Mac OS administrator's
privilege.
 Password—Enter the password of the Telnet user.
 Super Password—Enter the super password with which a Telnet user can elevate privileges
after login.
 Timeout (1-60 seconds)—Enter the maximum time period that APM waits for a Telnet
response from Mac OS. The value range is 1 to 60 seconds and the default is 4 seconds.
If no Telnet response is received from Mac OS within the timeout time, APM considers that
the interaction has failed.
SNMP parameters
 Edit SNMP Parameters—Select this option if you want to manually configure SNMP
parameters for APM. Make sure the SNMP settings are the same as those on Mac OS.
 Select an Existing Template—Select this option if you want to select an existing SNMP
template for APM. For information about setting SNMP parameter templates, see HP IMC
Base Platform Administrator Guide.
 Parameter Type—Select the SNMP parameter type. Options include SNMPv1, SNMPv2c,
and SNMPv3 Template. The SNMPv3 Template option is available only when Select an
Existing Template is selected.
 Read-Only Community String—Enter the SNMP read-only community string, with which
APM can read MIB variables from the Mac OS host.
 Read-Write Community String—Enter the read-write SNMP community string, with which
APM can read MIB variables from or write MIB variables to the Mac OS host.
 Timeout (1-60 seconds)—Enter the maximum time period that APM waits for an SNMP
response from Mac OS. The value range is 1 to 60 seconds and the default is 4 seconds.
If no SNMP response is received from Mac OS within the timeout time, APM considers that
the interaction has failed.
 Retries (1-20)—Enter how many times APM retries to send SNMP packets to the Mac OS
host.
 Contact—Modify user contact information, such as name, email address, and telephone
number.
 Related Applications—Modify the applications that Mac OS depends on. Click Add, and then
select applications in the popup Select Applications window. Operating system applications,
such as Windows, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, Mac OS, and Linux, cannot be