NonStop Cluster Performance Essentials User's Guide, Version 2.2
default, the
 WBEM port used by Performance Essentials is 8888 for NonStop agents 
and 443 for Linux agents. The user should not use this port number configuration to 
specify which port Performance Essentials is running. After the credentials have been 
supplied the user should click “OK” and then click “Save”. A new entry should be 
created in the Discovery table. Select the “discovery task” that was created and click 
“Run Now”. The discovery of the servers invokes the discovery of the cluster. Refer 
to the SIM user manual for details on how to invoke discovery. 
If the discovery of the systems has occurred without setting the WBEM/WMI System 
Protocol settings, the user must provide the user name and password of the owner of 
the agent process for each server in the cluster. 
For SIM v5.2, this information can be added via Options -> Protocol Settings -> 
System Protocol Settings in SIM. After selecting a system, in the WBEM Settings 
section, the user may enter a port number, user name, and password for the agent 
and then click “Run Now” at the bottom of the page when finished. 
For SIM v5.3, the user should provide the WBEM credentials and port number for a 
system via Options   Security Credentials  System Credentials Edit 
system credentials. The WBEM settings would show up after clicking “Show advanced 
protocol settings”. To run a task in SIM v5.3, the user must check “Update 
values for this protocol” under SNMP Settings via Options -> Protocol 
Settings -> System Protocol Settings and then click “Run Now” at the bottom 
of the page. 
If the Performance Essentials NonStop and/or Linux Agents are not running from the 
default ports, then the user will need to update the Ports.properties file. By default, 
the Performance Essentials NonStop agent runs on port 8888 and the Performance 
Essentials Linux agent runs on port 443. To modify the Ports.properties file, the user 
needs to access the file from the inside the SIM installation folder (C:\Program 
Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\config\performance) and edit the file using 
Notepad. The user will need to enter in the IP Address and Port number where the 
agent is running for all Performance Essentials agents that are not using the default 
ports, e.g.: 16.107.123.11=4814. [Note: If a system has multiple IPs (as reflected in 
the System Property Page for that system) then each of the IPs need to be listed 
with the port number.] After the Ports.properties file has been modified and saved, 
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