HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Command line interface............................................................................................................149
System groups...............................................................................................................................149
Managing system groups from the GUI........................................................................................149
Managing system groups from the CLI using mxngroup..................................................................150
7 Directory Services...................................................................................151
Configuring directory servers................................................................................................................151
Configuring directory groups................................................................................................................152
8 HP SIM credentials.................................................................................155
Global credentials...............................................................................................................................155
System credentials...............................................................................................................................155
Viewing systems credentials.............................................................................................................156
Editing systems credentials..............................................................................................................156
Deleting system credentials........................................................................................................156
Sign-in credentials..........................................................................................................................157
Single sign on credentials...............................................................................................................157
SNMP credentials..........................................................................................................................158
SSH credentials.............................................................................................................................159
WBEM credentials.........................................................................................................................160
WS-Man credentials.......................................................................................................................161
Credentials used in HP SIM.............................................................................................................162
9 Networking and security.........................................................................163
Secure Sockets Layer and certificates.....................................................................................................163
Sign-in and accounts...........................................................................................................................163
Single Sign On, Replicate Agent Settings, and Install Software and Firmware..............................................163
Certificates.........................................................................................................................................164
Credentials........................................................................................................................................164
Privilege elevation...............................................................................................................................164
About login........................................................................................................................................165
Single Sign On..............................................................................................................................165
Signing in.....................................................................................................................................165
Sign-in authentication on Linux and HP-UX.........................................................................................166
Configuring PAM on a Linux system.............................................................................................166
Configuring PAM on an HP-UX system.........................................................................................166
About secure task execution..................................................................................................................167
Configuring the system link...................................................................................................................167
Configuring sign-in events....................................................................................................................168
Configuring browser timeout options......................................................................................................168
Changing the HP SIM default SSL port...................................................................................................169
Configuring privilege elevation.............................................................................................................170
Server certificates................................................................................................................................170
Creating a server certificate............................................................................................................171
Editing a server certificate...............................................................................................................173
Importing a server certificate...........................................................................................................174
Exporting a server certificate...........................................................................................................175
Creating a certificate signing request................................................................................................175
Submitting a certificate signing request.............................................................................................176
Importing a CA-signed certificate.....................................................................................................176
Synchronizing certificates................................................................................................................177
Replicating trusted certificates..........................................................................................................178
Migrating trusted system certificates from the Source CMS to the target CMS....................................178
Migrating certificates when the source CMS has many trusted certificates...................................178
Migrating certificates when the source CMS has a lower number of trusted certificates.................178
Using the Replicate Agent Settings feature....................................................................................179
Possible certificate errors.................................................................................................................179
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