HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Windows HP Part Number: 418812-005

administration rights, this configuration step is not necessary . HP SIM does not create this
user. The user already exists as either a domain user or one local to the managed system.
The user is added to the DCOM Users group on the managed system and has read-only
access to WMI information, and read-write permissions to the HPQ name space. This user
does not need to be an administrator of the managed system or have sign-in rights. The
domain administrator should create a special domain account.
To enter the credentials for HP SIM to use to access the managed systems:
1. In the User name field, enter a user name.
2. In the Password field, enter the password.
3. In the Password (Verify) field, re-enter the password exactly as it was entered in the
Password field.
4. In the Domain field, enter the Windows domain if the target belongs to a domain.
If configuration of a nonadministrative user is successful, then these credentials are saved
as the System Credentials for WBEM access in HP SIM.
• Configure SNMP This section enables you to configure SNMP settings.
Select Set read community string to specify a community string. By default, the first HP SIM
community string that is not public appears. If no community string exists in HP SIM, you must
enter one.
Note: If you configure only HP-UX systems with default SNMP installations, you do not need
to set this option. HP-UX enables read by default (get-community-name is set to public by
default on HP-UX systems).
a.
Note: If you select this option, the Read Only community string is added to the target systems.
If the target system is SuSE Linux or Microsoft Windows 2003, the managed systems do not
always enable SNMP communication between themselves and a remote host. This setting is
modified to enable the instance of the HP SIM system to communicate using SNMP with these
target systems.
Note: You can enter a community string up to 255 characters.
Note: Repairing the SNMP settings adds a Read Write community string to the target system
only if one does not currently exist. This community string is unique for each system, is
composed of over 30 characters to include letters and numbers, and is visible only to the user
with administrator privileges for that system. This Read Write community string is required
by the Web Agent to perform certain threshold setting capabilities. This community string is
used locally only on the target system and is not used by HP SIM over the network. Linux and
HP-UX systems do not require a Read Write community string. The Read Write community
string is added on Windows systems only.
b. Select Set traps to refer to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager in the target
systems SNMP Trap Destination List. This setting enables the target systems to send SNMP
traps to this instance of HP SIM.
c. Select Send a sample SNMP trap to this instance of the HP SIM to test that events
appear in HP SIM event lists to verify that SNMP events appear in the HP SIM events list.
To successfully send a test trap, you must configure target systems to send a trap to this
instance.
Note: You can send a test trap only from a managed system with an HP Insight Management
Agent installed.
Note: The trap from Windows appears as a Generic Trap from the system and is listed as a
Major Event in the Event List of HP SIM. The trap received from Linux and HP-UX targets
appears as a Cold Trap and is listed as Informational Events in the Event List of HP SIM.
68 Setting up and configuring managed systems