Security requirements for the insight providers – HP Insight Management WBEM Providers User Manual
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You can install the Insight Providers individually using an Insight Providers Smart Component. Perform
this type of installation to install the Insight Providers without performing a full PSP installation or
without using SmartStart.
NOTE:
You must install PSP 8.60 (or later) before or with Insight Providers 2.7.0. For ProLiant 100 Series
G6 servers, you must install the Easy Set-up CD components.
To install the Insight Providers Smart Component:
1.
Verify that the target servers are on the supported hardware list. See “
2.
Verify that the target server has a supported operating system installed. See “
3.
Log in as an administrator on the target server.
4.
Install the Insight Providers Smart Component:
• For 32-bit Windows® environments, execute the cp012931.exe Smart Component by
double-clicking the file or by invoking it in a script.
• For x64 64-bit Windows® environments, execute the cp012930.exe Smart Component by
double-clicking the file or by invoking it in a script.
To uninstall the Insight Providers, use Add or Remove Programs for Windows Server® 2003 or
Programs and Features for Windows Server® 2008.
Security requirements for the Insight Providers
NOTE:
The standard user accounts that are used to access HP WBEM Providers management information
must have access rights and security group memberships to enable remote access by HP SIM or other
clients querying WMI data. An administrator account has sufficient rights and security group
memberships to access HP WBEM Providers management information.
To enable remote access of the Insight Providers through WMI for non-administrator user accounts:
1.
Add the standard user account to the Distributed COM Users group.
2.
For the following namespaces, add the standard user account to namespace security:
• root\HPQ
• root\HPQ\default
• root\HPQ\TestEvent
• root\Interop
• root\CIMv2
3.
To add the standard user account to namespace security, complete the following steps for each
name space:
a.
Right-click My Computer > Manage > Services and Applications.
b.
Right-click WMI Control.
c.
Click Properties.
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