Integrating HP Insight Management WBEM (WMI) Providers for Windows with HP System Insight Manager, 4th edition

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• Move the mapper to a secondary Windows server to remove some network traffic and processing
from the server that hosts HP SIM CMS.
• Install the mapper on a separate Windows server if you are installing HP SIM on a Linux or HPUX
server.
• If installing the HP SIM CMS on Linux or HPUX, the mapper will not run since it is a Windows
service. From Linux, an administrator can discover a Windows system with the mapper service
running. HP SIM on Linux can then apply the WMI Mapper proxy settings to point to that WMI
Mapper service on that Windows system. Then the Linux HP SIM CMS can use WBEM to
communicate with the WMI Mapper to pass data to the Windows WMI managed devices.
If installing the HP SIM CMS on a Windows server, the HP SIM installation package installs the WMI
Mapper by default. You can also install the WMI Mapper on a remote Windows server. The WMI
Mapper application is available from the HP website. Find it at
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/dl_windows.html. You should
activate the indication service when installing the WMI Mapper from the command line.
If you use a CLI command to install the WMI Mapper kit, use the following command line to get a
complete installation: WMIMapper.msi INDICATIONSSUPPORT=yes. This command installs both
the services of the WMI Mapper, the indications services, and the instances service.
Declare the correct server as the Mapper by opening the HP SIM user interface and going to Options
> Protocol Settings > WMI Mapper Proxy.
To confirm the Mapper is working properly, access the Mapper system page and confirm two things:
WBEM is a discovered management protocol, and the Properties link is present and working.
WMI Mapper installation complete
The WMI Mapper installs in Program Files\The Open Group\WMI Mapper. The ConfigREADME.txt
file contains configuration parameters, including enabling logging. Two services should be present,
one that supports indications and another that supports WMI data requests. You must install the
Indications service for HP SIM to receive indications. Figure 15 shows the Mapper service listed in the
Services window.