HP SAN - Manual (Page 22)

Supported operating systems
The following operating systems support host discovery:
OS Version OS Name OS Type Sr. No:
11.23,11.31 HPUX Physical 1
3.0, 3.5, 4.0,4.1 ESX Virtual 2
3.5, 4.0,4.1,5.0, 5.1 ESXi Virtual 3
Hyper V Virtual 4
5, 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Physical 5
9, 10, 11 SUSE Linux Physical 6
Service Pack 2 Microsoft Windows 2003
Standard or Enterprise edition Physical 7
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Physical 8
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Physical 9
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
R2 Physical 10
Host discovery interfaces
Table 3 (page 22) describes the interfaces used for host discovery and data collection:
Table 3 Host discovery interfaces
Operating system Interface
ESX, HP-UX WBEM
ESX, Linux, and HP-UX SSH
Windows (including HyperV) WMI
Server configurations
Microsoft Windows
Do the following:
•
The WMI service is running and it includes the Windows installer provider component.
WMI configuration
•
If you are an Administrator, then do not make any changes.
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If you are a non-administrator, then remote access, remote launch, and remote activation
permissions are required. Provide permissions for everyone in the group.
To provide permissions for everyone in the group:
1.
In the Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools.
2. In the Administrative Tools window, double-click Component Services.
3. Expand Computers, and right-click My Computer, and then select Properties.
4. In the COM Security tab, under Access Permissions click Edit Limits and provide Remote
Access permissions for everyone.
5. In the COM Security tab, under Launch and Activation Permissions click Edit Limits, and
provide Remote Launch and Remote Activation permissions for everyone.
If the above steps do not work, see “DCOM configuration” (page 50) .
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