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HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

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Setting up Linux managed systems manually
1. Install and configure SSH.
a. Verify that SSH is installed on the managed system:
rpm -qa | grep ssh
If SSH is not installed, see your Linux provider for information about installing SSH.
b. On the CMS, copy the SSH-generated public key from the CMS to the managed system, and place
it in the authorized keys file of the execute-as user (root or administrator).
Important: On a non-English CMS, ensure that an administrator account exists on the CMS, and
that mxagentconfig has run on the CMS for the created administrator account.
i. Launch the Manage SSH Keys dialog box from the CMS command prompt:
mxagentconfig -a -n hostname -u username -p Password
ii. Click Connect.
2. Configure the system to send SNMP traps.
Note: These steps might vary slightly, depending on your version of Linux. See your Linux provider for
details if these file paths and file names do not exist on your system.
a. Verify that SNMP is installed:
rpm -qa | grep snmp
If it is not installed, see your Linux provider for information about installing SNMP.
b. Stop the HP Server and Management Drivers and Agents daemons if they are installed on your
system:
/etc/init.d/hpasm stop
c. Stop the SNMP daemon:
/etc/init.d/snmpd stop
d. Edit the snmpd.conf file.
For Red Hat Linux, open this file in the vi editor:
vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
For SuSE SLES 8, open this file in the vi editor:
vi /usr/share/snmp/snmpd.conf
i. Remove the comment symbol (#) from the trapsink line, and add the IP address of the CMS:
trapsink IPaddress
where IPaddress is the IP address of the CMS.
ii. Add the CMS to the read only community by adding the line:
rocommunity CommunityName IPaddress
where CommunityName is the SNMP community string used by the CMS and IPaddress
is the IP address of the CMS.
iii. Save the changes to the file. To save and close this file using the vi editor, press the Esc key,
enter :wq!, and press the Enter key.
e. Start the SNMP daemon:
/etc/init.d/snmpd start
f. Start the HP Server Management Drivers and Agents daemons if it is installed on your system:
/etc/init.d/hpasm start
3. Install the Linux ProLiant Support Pack. To download this software and access installation information,
see http://www.hp.com/support/files.
58 Getting started