Manual

Contents
1 Introduction ....................................................................................... 5
Overview ................................................................................................................................... 5
Windows Management Instrumentation ......................................................................................... 5
2 Installing the HP Insight Providers ......................................................... 7
Insight Providers Smart Component ............................................................................................... 7
Installing the Insight Providers from the Web Download ................................................................... 7
Installing the Insight Providers with PSP .......................................................................................... 7
Installing the Insight Providers as part of a SmartStart Assisted Path installation ................................... 8
Installing the Insight Providers using HP SIM ................................................................................... 9
Installing the Insight Providers Smart Component ........................................................................... 10
Security requirements for the Insight Providers ............................................................................... 11
SNMP agent compatibility ......................................................................................................... 12
3 Uninstalling SNMP-Based HP Insight Management Agents ..................... 13
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 13
Uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents on a single local server ............................................... 13
Uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents on a single remote server ............................................ 13
Uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents on multiple remote servers using HP SIM ........................ 14
Scripting commands for uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents ............................................... 15
Scripting commands for HP Insight Management Agents 6.30 through 7.60 ............................... 15
Scripting commands for HP Insight Management Agents 7.70 or later ....................................... 16
4 Using the SMH with the Insight Providers ............................................. 17
Change Data Source ................................................................................................................. 17
Auto Refresh ............................................................................................................................. 17
Threshold settings ..................................................................................................................... 17
Data collection ......................................................................................................................... 18
5 Security .......................................................................................... 19
Security concerns ...................................................................................................................... 19
Implementation ......................................................................................................................... 19
Best practices ........................................................................................................................... 19
Configuring Insight Provider Security for a User Account using HP SIM Configure and Repair
Agents .................................................................................................................................... 20
Configuring Insight Provider Security using the Windows Command Line .......................................... 21
6 Windows Server® 2008 Firewall configuration .................................... 23
Firewall configuration introduction ............................................................................................... 23
Firewall configuration ................................................................................................................ 23
7 Insight Providers architecture .............................................................. 25
HP Insight Management WBEM Providers 2.7.0.0 User Guide 3