HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with SP1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows
Table Of Contents
- HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with SP1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows
- Table of Contents
- 1 Product overview
- 2 Installation overview and requirements
- 3 Installing HP SIM on the Central Management Server (CMS) for the first time
- 4 Configuring HP SIM using the First Time Wizard
- Using the First Time Wizard
- Configuring the managed environment
- Enabling automatic system discovery
- Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign in credentials
- Configuring managed systems
- Configuring the WMI Mapper Proxy
- Configuring privilege elevation
- Configuring e-mail settings
- First Time Wizard summary
- Finishing the First Time Wizard
- Operating-system-specific collections, reports, and tools
- 5 Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu
- 6 Setting up and configuring managed systems
- 7 Initializing the Remote Support Software Manager
- 8 Upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager
- 9 Uninstalling HP Systems Insight Manager
- 10 Using the graphical user interface
- 11 Using the command line interface
- 12 Configuration options
- 13 Troubleshooting
- glossary
- Index
NOTE: To delete a group name, select the group name, and click Delete.
d. From the User Access window, configure the
HP System Management Homepage
for the following
access types:
• Select Anonymous Access to enable anonymous access to unsecured pages.
• Select Local Access Anonymous or Local Access Administrator to set up the HP System
Management Homepage to automatically grant local IP addresses at the selected access level.
CAUTION: Selecting Local Access with Administrator privileges provides any
users
with
access to the local console full access without prompting them for a user name or password.
e. Click Next. The Trust Mode window appears.
f. Select the level of security you want to provide from one of the three trust modes:
• Trust By Certificate
Select Trust By Certificate, and click Next. The Trusted Certificates window appears.
The Trusted Certificates window allows trusted
certificate
files to be added to the
Trusted Certificate List.
i.
ii. Click Add File to browse and select any certificates to be included in the Trusted
Certificate List. The Select File window appears. If an invalid file name is entered in
the file name field, an error message appears, indicating the file does not exist. Click
OK to select another file, or click Open to add the file to the Trusted Certificate List.
The Trusted Certificate List appears. Click Next.
NOTE: If you click Next without adding any certificates to the list, and no certificates
exist from a previous installation, a message appears, indicating that if you do not specify
any trusted certificates, HP SIM cannot access the HP Insight Management Agent on this
system. Click OK if you do not want HP SIM to access the Insight Management Agent
on this system, or click Cancel to close the window and add the trusted certificates to
the list.
NOTE: The Trust By Certificates option enables the HP System Management
Homepage system and the HP SIM system to establish a trust relationship by means of
certificates. This mode is the strongest method of security because it requires certificate
data and verifies the digital signature before enabling access.
or
i. Click Import. The Import Server Certificate window appears.
ii. Enter the name or IP address of the server whose certificate you want to import.
iii. Click Get Cert. The certificate information appears.
iv. Verify the certificate information. If you want to add this certificate to the Trusted
Certificate List, click Accept and the certificate is added to the Trusted Certificate
List, or click Cancel if you do not want to add it to the Trusted Certificate List. The
Trusted Certificate List appears. Click Next.
88 Upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager