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The following features have been integrated into Systems Insight Manager and Insight Control to make them
secure:
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Browser Connections
Systems Insight Manager enforces a secure HTTPS connection to the web browser.
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User Names and Passwords
A Systems Insight Manager administrator has total flexibility to configure user accounts and passwords
to allow or restrict actions on managed systems. User logins are authenticated by the OS on the CMS,
and alll passwords are encrypted. See the
HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide for more information
about security:
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Firewalls
Systems Insight Manager and Insight Control work with a firewall if you open the appropriate ports.
For more information about managing HP servers through a firewall, see the Systems Insight Manager
information library, which contains a white paper that describes management protocols, separating
the management network, managing through a firewall using a single network, and open ports on the
CMS:
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Digital signature
HP software, firmware, drivers, applications, and other executables are delivered with an electronic
cryptographic signature. This electronic signature gives you an industry standard method to verify the
integrity and authenticity of the code you have received before you deploy it.
This digital signature is used in a signature verification process as follows:
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To verify and validate the authenticity of the code. That is, that HP created the code in question.
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To verify and validate the integrity of the code. That is, that the code in question was not altered
since it was originally signed by HP.
Open source products included with Insight Control
For information about the open-source products included with Insight Control (including license constraints,
updates, and security information), see the end-user license agreement (EULA), which is included in the HP
Insight Software Installer on Insight software DVD #1.
Accessing and launching Insight Control features
Most Insight Control features are launched from the Systems Insight Manager GUI.
The Insight Control server migration application is launched from the Windows Start
→All Programs→HP
Insight Software
menu, and the server deployment application can be launched from the Deployment
Console
icon on your Windows desktop.
Each chapter in this user guide provides launching instructions for every Insight Control feature.
Opening Systems Insight Manager from a web browser
Insight Control delivers its features as plug-ins to the Systems Insight Manager user interface. To access these
plug-ins, you must sign in and connect to the Systems Insight Manager management console:
1.
Open a browser window.
NOTE:
Supported browsers are listed in the
HP Insight Software Support Matrix
2.
Enter the web address of the CMS using either of the following address formats:
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http://CMS_fully_qualified_host_name:280/
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http://CMS_IP_address:280/
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