HP Insight Management WBEM Providers - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................5
Overview................................................................................................................................5
Windows Management Instrumentation.......................................................................................5
2 Installing the HP WBEM Provider Components................................................6
Intelligent Provisioning (IP)..........................................................................................................6
To install and configure HP WBEM Providers from HP SPP package on ProLiant servers......................6
3 Uninstalling the HP WBEM Provider Components from Proliant Servers..............8
Introduction..............................................................................................................................8
Uninstalling HP WBEM Provider Components Installed on a single local Proliant Server.....................8
Uninstalling HP WBEM Provider Components Installed on a single remote server..............................8
Scripting commands for uninstalling HP WBEM Providers...............................................................8
4 Using the SMH with the Insight Providers.....................................................10
Change Data Source..............................................................................................................10
Auto Refresh..........................................................................................................................10
Threshold settings...................................................................................................................10
Data collection.......................................................................................................................11
5 Security...................................................................................................12
Security concerns....................................................................................................................12
Implementation.......................................................................................................................12
Best practices.........................................................................................................................12
Configuring Insight Provider Security for a User Account using HP SIM Configure and Repair
Agents..................................................................................................................................12
Configuring Insight Provider Security using the Windows Command Line........................................14
6 Windows Server® 2008 Firewall configuration............................................15
Firewall configuration introduction.............................................................................................15
Firewall configuration..............................................................................................................15
7 Insight Providers architecture......................................................................17
Architecture overview..............................................................................................................17
Data model...........................................................................................................................18
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition examples........................................................................20
Insight Providers usage............................................................................................................22
Additional documentation........................................................................................................23
8 Scripting.................................................................................................24
Scripting examples.................................................................................................................24
WMIC example.................................................................................................................24
Scripting references.................................................................................................................24
9 Troubleshooting Insight Provider and HP WBEM Tools...................................25
Accessing Insight Providers from a client tool or Insight Provider tools.............................................25
10 Support and other resources.....................................................................27
Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................27
How to contact HP..................................................................................................................27
Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components......................................27
Subscription service................................................................................................................27
Registering for software technical support and update service ......................................................27
How to use your software technical support and update..............................................................28
HP authorized resellers............................................................................................................28
New and changed information in this edition.............................................................................28
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