HP Insight Management WBEM Providers - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
Overview................................................................................................................................7
Windows Management Instrumentation.......................................................................................7
2 Installing the HP WBEM Provider Components from Intelligent Provisioning (IP)
1.0 Software.................................................................................................9
Installing the HP Service Pack Proliant (SPP) Package on Proliant Servers from IP 1.0 Software.............9
3 Uninstalling the HP WBEM Provider Components from Proliant Servers............11
Introduction............................................................................................................................11
Uninstalling HP WBEM Provider Components Installed on a single local Proliant Server...................11
Uninstalling HP WBEM Provider Components Installed on a single remote server............................11
Scripting commands for uninstalling HP WBEM Providers.............................................................11
4 Using the SMH with the Insight Providers.....................................................13
Change Data Source..............................................................................................................13
Auto Refresh..........................................................................................................................13
Threshold settings...................................................................................................................13
Data collection.......................................................................................................................14
5 Security...................................................................................................15
Security concerns....................................................................................................................15
Implementation.......................................................................................................................15
Best practices.........................................................................................................................15
Configuring Insight Provider Security for a User Account using HP SIM Configure and Repair
Agents..................................................................................................................................15
Configuring Insight Provider Security using the Windows Command Line........................................17
6 Windows Server® 2008 Firewall configuration............................................19
Firewall configuration introduction.............................................................................................19
Firewall configuration..............................................................................................................19
7 Insight Providers architecture......................................................................21
Architecture overview..............................................................................................................21
Data model...........................................................................................................................22
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition examples........................................................................24
Insight Providers usage............................................................................................................27
Additional documentation........................................................................................................27
8 Scripting.................................................................................................29
Scripting examples.................................................................................................................29
WMIC example.................................................................................................................29
Scripting references.................................................................................................................29
Table of Contents 3