README - HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with Update 1
Enabled = Guest only - Local users authenticate as Guest
Disabled = Classic - Local users authenticate as themselves
This configuration can be seen in the Local Security Policy Editor under (Start→Control
Panel→Administrative Tools→Local Security Policy.
Select Security Settings→Local Policies→Security Options→Network access: Sharing and security
model for local accounts.
This change is necessary for the database install.
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Running the command
rpm --verify hpsim-pgsql-config
might report certain failing files. You can safely ignore these unless a file is listed as missing.
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HP SIM does not support operating system or database user names or passwords that contain a space
character.
HP SIM does not support Oracle user names that contain a forward slash (/) or backward slash (\).
In Oracle, a question mark (?) in the user name or password is created as :1
For example: user? is created as user:1
Therefore, the database configuration screen does not pass an Oracle user name or password containing
a question mark (?). A message appears that states, Specified credentials are invalid.
The workaround for this issue is to replace the ? with :1 on the HP SIM database configuration screen.
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If installing HP SIM on a Windows XP SP2 machine that is not a member of a domain, Simple File Sharing
is automatically disabled.
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Though a pure Microsoft environment can support non-standard system names (for example, using characters
outside the English alphabet), HP SIM does not and cannot be installed on these systems.
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If you are going to install HP SIM into a Named Instance of an SQL Database, then the Named Instance
must be configured with a unique port number.
When SQL Server is installed the first time, it installs the Default Instance, and is referred to by its name:
MSSQLSERVER. You can install a second copy of SQL Server and give it a unique name; this is a Named
Instance.
By default, SQL assigns the Port Number 1433 to the Default Instance, and any additional SQL Instances
installed are configured to assign themselves a Dynamic Port Number which will not conflict with the Default
Instance.
If you configure one or more Instances to use the same Port Number, then SQL will return the first instance
using that Port Number.
Linux System
If, as an administrator, you browse into a Linux CMS where the HP Insight Management Agents are installed
and a Security Alert dialog box appears when you click a Management Agent, then the Management
HTTP Server certificate has not been overwritten with the HP SIM certificate.
This occurs because OpenSSL is not configured correctly. On Linux, OpenSSL should be installed to the
/usr/bin/ directory. In HP-UX, OpenSSL should be installed in the /opt/apache/ssl/bin/ directory.
Install OpenSSL to the correct directory, then create a new HP SIM certificate to resolve this issue. See
Creating a Server Certificate in the Networking and Security chapter of the
HP Systems Insight Manager
5.3 Technical Reference
at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/
infolibrary.html.
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32 Known Issues and Workarounds