HP Insight Management WBEM Providers - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................4
Overview................................................................................................................................4
Windows Management Instrumentation.......................................................................................4
2 Installing the HP WBEM Provider Components from Intelligent Provisioning (IP)
1.10 Software................................................................................................5
Installing the HP Service Pack Proliant (SPP) Package on Proliant Servers from IP 1.10 Software............5
3 Uninstalling the HP WBEM Provider Components from Proliant Servers..............6
Introduction..............................................................................................................................6
Uninstalling HP WBEM Provider Components Installed on a single local Proliant Server.....................6
Uninstalling HP WBEM Provider Components Installed on a single remote server..............................6
Scripting commands for uninstalling HP WBEM Providers...............................................................6
4 Using the SMH with the Insight Providers.......................................................8
Change Data Source................................................................................................................8
Auto Refresh............................................................................................................................8
Threshold settings.....................................................................................................................8
Data collection.........................................................................................................................9
5 Security...................................................................................................10
Security concerns....................................................................................................................10
Implementation.......................................................................................................................10
Best practices.........................................................................................................................10
Configuring Insight Provider Security for a User Account using HP SIM Configure and Repair
Agents..................................................................................................................................10
Configuring Insight Provider Security using the Windows Command Line........................................12
6 Windows Server® 2008 Firewall configuration............................................13
Firewall configuration introduction.............................................................................................13
Firewall configuration..............................................................................................................13
7 Insight Providers architecture......................................................................15
Architecture overview..............................................................................................................15
Data model...........................................................................................................................16
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition examples........................................................................19
Insight Providers usage............................................................................................................21
Additional documentation........................................................................................................21
8 Scripting.................................................................................................23
Scripting examples.................................................................................................................23
WMIC example.................................................................................................................23
Scripting references.................................................................................................................23
9 Troubleshooting Insight Provider and HP WBEM Tools...................................24
Accessing Insight Providers from a client tool or Insight Provider tools.............................................24
10 Technical support....................................................................................26
Reference documentation.........................................................................................................26
HP contact information............................................................................................................26
Acronyms and abbreviations.........................................................................27
Index.........................................................................................................28
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