HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 29)

3 Setting up managed systems
Setting up managed systems involves installing the required Management Agents software and
configuring the supported protocols to communicate with the HP SIM software.
Configure or Repair Agents
Managed systems must be able to communicate status to the HP Systems Insight Manager CMS
in order to launch commands to the managed systems. To configure the managed systems to
communicate with the CMS, you must configure common configurations and trust relationships.
The Configure or Repair Agents feature enables you to configure or repair agents in Windows,
Linux, and HP-UX.
The Configure or Repair Agents tool enables you to repair Simple Network Management Protocol
settings and trust relationships that exist between HP Systems Insight Manager and target systems
if you have 7.2 agents or later installed. If you have 7.1 agents or earlier installed, you can update
Web Agent passwords on target systems.
This tool adds the security and trap community strings and trust settings to the target systems, but
it does not replace existing settings. To replace existing settings on target systems, use the Replicate
Agent Settings feature in HP SIM.
You can use Configure or Repair Agents tool to send test SNMP traps from Windows systems with
Insight Management Advisors and send test
Web-Based Enterprise Management indications from
Windows and HP-UX systems with HP WBEM provider installed.
You can also configure WBEM certificates for HP-UX systems and WBEM/WMI users for Windows
systems with HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003 or Windows
Server 2008.
The Configure or Repair Agents feature on a Windows CMS also enables you to install various
agents and providers on a ProLiant or Itanium-based system with Windows operating system. A
few features that can be installed include:
• Agentless Management Service (AMS)
• HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server
2008
• OpenSSH
• HP Version Control Agent for Windows
• Insight Management Advisors for Windows
For detailed information on running Configure or Repair Agents, see the HP SIM online help.
Setting up Windows servers to be managed by HP SIM
To be fully managed by HP SIM, HP ProLiant servers running Windows should have the Insight
Management Agents or HP WBEM Providers installed. These agents are part of the ProLiant Support
Pack. See the HP SIM online help for instructions on how to do this through the HP SIM UI. You
can also configure these agents to be installed as part of your normal operating system deployment
procedures. For third party servers, enable WMI and/or SNMP in the operating system. HP SIM
attempts to retrieve information that is instrumented in an industry-standard way. After setting up
the management agents on the managed systems, the remaining configuration can be done from
the HP SIM user interface. Continue to Chapter 4
Chapter 4 “Credentials” for further information.
Procedure 3-1 Configuring or repairing the agents for Windows
1. Select Configure
→Configure or Repair Agents.
2. Select Install Agentless Management Service (AMS) on HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
running Windows, Linux, or ESX
to send all host operating system-specific data to the iLO4
firmware.
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