HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 6)

Changing the HP SIM and HP Insight Control database credentials.....................................97
Changing the database authorizations for Matrix OE and HP Operations Orchestration....97
Reconfiguring the CMS to use a different database................................................................98
Dependencies...............................................................................................................98
Warning......................................................................................................................98
Changing the database associated with the CMS..............................................................98
20 Understanding HP SIM security...........................................................100
Securing communication...................................................................................................100
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)............................................................................................100
How to configure ciphers.........................................................................................100
Secure Shell (SSH).......................................................................................................100
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)....................................................................100
Secure Task Execution (STE) and Single Sign-On (SSO)....................................................100
Distributed Task Facility (DTF)........................................................................................101
WBEM......................................................................................................................101
LDAP.........................................................................................................................101
RMI...........................................................................................................................101
Credentials management..................................................................................................101
SSL certificates............................................................................................................101
HP SIM main certificate...........................................................................................101
HP SIM SSO certificate............................................................................................102
WBEM certificate...................................................................................................102
Upgrading to HP SIM 7.2........................................................................................102
Certificate expiration and Certificate Revocation Check (CRL Check)..................................102
Source of client and server certificates.......................................................................102
Enabling or disabling certificate revocation check.......................................................103
Offline and online mode of certificate revocation check...............................................103
Offline mode....................................................................................................103
Online mode....................................................................................................103
CRL distribution points.............................................................................................103
Warning or error....................................................................................................104
Conditions for warning............................................................................................104
Customizable properties..........................................................................................104
Certificate sharing.......................................................................................................104
SSH keys....................................................................................................................104
Passwords..................................................................................................................105
Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server server authorizations........................................105
Browser..........................................................................................................................106
SSL............................................................................................................................106
Cookies.....................................................................................................................106
Passwords..................................................................................................................106
Password warnings......................................................................................................106
Browser session...........................................................................................................107
Internet Explorer zones.................................................................................................107
System link format.......................................................................................................107
Operating-system dependencies.........................................................................................107
User accounts and authentication..................................................................................107
File system..................................................................................................................108
Background processes.................................................................................................108
Windows Cygwin.......................................................................................................108
HP-UX and Linux.........................................................................................................108
HP SIM database.............................................................................................................108
Configuring the SQL Server to enable SSL connection on database in HP SIM.....................108
Installing a certificate on a server with Microsoft Management Consold (MMC)..............109
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