HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

a. Enter the user name and password.
b. To add additional port number, user name, and password sets, click Add. To delete port
number, user name, and password sets, click Delete beside the set you want to delete.
HP SIM verifies that the port numbers entered are unique and valid port numbers. By default,
the port number is blank. Port numbers are not available on the discovery task pages.
c. To use other credentials if the assigned credentials fail, check If these credentials fail, try
other credentials that may apply. Click the Learn more link for additional information.
By default this box is not selected, unless you have upgraded HP SIM.
d. (Optional) To push the HP SIM certificate to HP-UX managed systems, select Push HP SIM
certificate to managed system. If this option is selected, Configure or Repair Agents must
run to push the certificate to the managed system. When this option is selected, the Additional
credentials required to save the configurations for WBEM, SSH, and/or Single Sign-On
section is displayed. Select from:
i. Use sign-in credentials entered in HP SIM. These credentials must be for an account with
administrator or root access on the selected system
ii. Use the following credentials for all systems Enter the user name, password, and
domain credentials to use for all selected systems.
These Configure or Repair Agents credentials apply to the WBEM, SSH, and Single Sign
On protocols. You need to enter them only once and they pre-populate on each tab.
• Replace the selected system's WBEM/WMI credentials individually as following Use this option
to view and configure the list of systems individually.
• Enter the port number, user name, and password. Port numbers must be unique.
To add additional port number, user name, and password sets, click Add. To delete port number,
user name, and password sets, click Delete by the set you want to delete.
• (Optional) To try additional port number, user name, and password sets, select Try Others.
8. To save changes and start identification in the background, click OK. To cancel changes, click Cancel.
Related procedures
• Sign-in credentials
• SNMP credentials
• WS-Man credentials
• SSH credentials
• Single sign on credentials
Related topics
▲ System credentials
WS-Man credentials
1. Select Options→Security→Credentials→System Credentials.
2. Select target systems. See “Creating a task” for more information.
3. Click Run Now. The System Credentials page appears.
4. To edit system credentials, select systems and click Edit system credentials.
5. Click Show advanced protocol credentials.
6. To set WS-MAN credentials, select WS-MAN.
7. Select from:
• Replace each system's WS-MAN credentials with the following Use this option to set the user
name and password pair for the WS-MAN credentials.
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