HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 89)

19 CMS reconfigure tools
The CMS reconfigure tools feature provides a set of commands that enable you to quickly make
common reconfiguration changes to Systems Insight Manager.
The challenge in attempting to make operating system or CMS configuration changes is the difficulty
in knowing exactly what steps need to be performed on a particular operating system/CMS installed
environment. The mxreconfig command fills the need for an automated application tool to
perform these tasks for the Insight software components.
CMS reconfigure tools is supported in Systems Insight Manager 6.3, and only on systems running
Microsoft Windows with SQL server.
Prior to using any CMS reconfigure tools commands, ensure the CMS and associated database
are backed up. For information about backing up the CMS, see the Backing up and restoring HP
Insight Software 6.3 Central Management System (Windows) white paper at:
www.hp.com/go/
insightsoftware/docs .
Operational Commands, Options and Parameters
Operational command type options for mxreconfig are those designated single-char options that
must be the first option placed on the entered command line string. These type options may or may
not require an additional argument string. For example, the operational command option ‘-m’
(mode) option requires an argument. This operational option is used to specify a particular
reconfiguration mode. The required associated argument string identifies which specific
reconfiguration task mode needs to be performed in the specified mode, such as ‘host’ (to change
host name) or ‘password’ (to change password).
An example of an mxreconfig command is shown below. This command is a request to change
the CMS host name (additional command line options and arguments would be required for this
particular reconfiguration command and are described later).
>mxreconfig –m host
An example of an operational command option that does not require an argument is the ‘-h’ (help)
option. This operational option is used to show brief online help usage text in the console. No
associated argument string is required.
>mxreconfig –h
Parameter type options are those single-char options that follow the operational command option
on the entered command line string. These type options may be required or may be optional for
the specified operational command option being given, and the parameter option itself might not
require an additional argument string. An example of using a parameter type option is the ‘-a’
option which is used to specify the database user name. This particular type parameter option
does require an additional string argument, which is the actual specified database username.
>mxreconfig –m dbauth –a db-username-here
The usage of the available commands depends on the products you have installed. See the HP
Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Command Line Guide for information on the command options,
arguments, and parameters.
Reconfiguring the CMS password
The mxreconfig —m password command prompts you for a new password and changes the
credentials configured and used by Insight software. The mxreconfig –m password command
realigns the HP Insight software service account credentials with the operating system password
after the operating system password is changed by other operating system tools. If the user that
installed Systems Insight Manager on the CMS changes the Windows logon password, then that
user must also run this command to make all the passwords used by the Insight software services
match the new operating system password.
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