HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 6)

Reconfiguring the CMS database credentials.........................................................................99
Dependencies.............................................................................................................100
Warning....................................................................................................................100
Changing the HP SIM and HP Insight Control database credentials...................................100
Changing the database authorizations for Matrix OE and HP Operations Orchestration...100
Reconfiguring the CMS to use a different database..............................................................101
Dependencies.............................................................................................................101
Warning....................................................................................................................101
Changing the database associated with the CMS............................................................101
20 Understanding HP SIM security...........................................................103
Securing communication...................................................................................................103
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)............................................................................................103
How to configure ciphers.........................................................................................103
Secure Shell (SSH).......................................................................................................103
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)....................................................................103
Secure Task Execution (STE) and Single Sign-On (SSO)....................................................103
Distributed Task Facility (DTF)........................................................................................104
WBEM......................................................................................................................104
LDAP.........................................................................................................................104
RMI...........................................................................................................................104
Credentials management..................................................................................................104
SSL certificates............................................................................................................104
HP SIM main certificate...........................................................................................104
HP SIM SSO certificate............................................................................................105
WBEM certificate...................................................................................................105
Upgrading to HP SIM 7.3........................................................................................105
Certificate expiration and Certificate Revocation Check (CRL Check)..................................105
Source of client and server certificates.......................................................................105
Enabling or disabling certificate revocation check.......................................................106
Offline and online mode of certificate revocation check...............................................106
Offline mode....................................................................................................106
Online mode....................................................................................................106
CRL distribution points.............................................................................................106
Warning or error....................................................................................................107
Conditions for warning............................................................................................107
Customizable properties..........................................................................................107
Certificate sharing.......................................................................................................107
SSH keys....................................................................................................................107
Passwords..................................................................................................................108
Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server server authorizations........................................108
Browser..........................................................................................................................109
SSL............................................................................................................................109
Cookies.....................................................................................................................109
Passwords..................................................................................................................109
Password warnings......................................................................................................109
Browser session...........................................................................................................110
Internet Explorer zones.................................................................................................110
System link format.......................................................................................................110
Operating-system dependencies.........................................................................................110
User accounts and authentication..................................................................................110
File system..................................................................................................................111
Background processes.................................................................................................111
Windows Cygwin.......................................................................................................111
HP-UX and Linux.........................................................................................................111
6 Contents