HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual
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You must have full CMS configuration privileges to modify the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) community
strings in the node security file. In addition, you must have administrator privileges for Windows systems or
root privileges for Linux and HP-UX on the target systems to configure or repair the agent settings.
To configure agents remotely:
1.
Select Configure
→Configure or Repair Agents. The Step 1: Select Target Systems page appears.
Note: The Verify Target Systems page appears if the targets are selected before selecting a tool.
2.
To add targets, select a group from the dropdown list. The contents of the selected group appear and
can be selected as targets. To select the entire collection, select Select "name of collection"
itself
.
3.
To remove a target, select the target’s checkbox, and then click Remove Targets.
4.
Click Next. The Step 2: Enter login credentials page appears.
5.
From the Step 2: Enter credentials page:
a.
In the User name field, enter the system administrator or root user name.
b.
In the Password field, enter the system administrator or root password for the user name previously
entered.
c.
In the Password (Verify) field, reenter the system administrator password exactly as it was entered
in the Password field.
d.
For Windows managed systems only, in the Domain field, enter the Windows domain.
Note: The credentials used in this step must work for all target systems that have been selected. HP
recommends using domain administrator or root credentials.
6.
Click Next. The Configure or Repair Settings page appears.
Step 3: Configure or Repair Settings
enables you to select options to configure the target system.
The following options are available:
•
Configure SNMP. Select this option to configure
settings.
If this option is selected, the following steps must be considered:
1.
Select Set read community string to specify a community string. By default, HP Systems
Insight Manager's first community string, that is not public, appears in the field. If no community
string exists in HP Systems Insight Manager, then you must enter one.
Note: If only HP-UX systems with default SNMP installation are being configured at this time,
you can clear this option. HP-UX enables read by default (get-community-name is set to public
by default on HP-UX systems).
Note: If this option is selected, the Read Only community string is added to the target systems.
If the target system is SuSE Linux or Microsoft Windows 2003, the managed nodes do not
always enable SNMP communication between themselves and a remote host. This setting is
modified to enable the instance of the HP SIM system to communicate using SNMP with these
target systems.
Note: You can enter a community string up to 255 characters.
Note: Repairing the SNMP settings adds a Read Write community string to the target system
only if one does not currently exist. This community string is unique for each system, is composed
of over 30 characters to include letters and numbers, and is only visible to the user with
administrator privileges for that system. This Read Write community string is required by the
Web Agent to perform certain threshold setting capabilities. This community string is only
used locally on the target system and is not used by HP Systems Insight Manager over the
network. Linux and HP-UX systems do not need a Read Write community string, hence the
Read Write
community is added on Windows systems only.
2.
Select Set traps to refer to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager in the target
systems' SNMP Trap Destination List. This enables the target systems to send
to this instance of HP SIM.
•
Trust relationship: Set to "Trust by Certificate". Select this option to require systems to use the Trust
by Certificate
trust relationship with the System Management Homepage.
For System Management Homepage on the target systems, this option sets the trust mode to Trust
by Certificate
and copies the HP Systems Insight Manager system certificate to the target system's
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