HP Insight Management WBEM Providers 2.8.0.0 User Guide

Contents

1 Introduction...............................................................................................5

Overview................................................................................................................................5

Windows Management Instrumentation.......................................................................................5

2 Installing the HP Insight Providers..................................................................6

Insight Providers Smart Component.............................................................................................6

Installing the Insight Providers from the Web Download.................................................................6

Installing the Insight Providers with PSP........................................................................................6

Installing the Insight Providers as part of a SmartStart Assisted Path installation.................................7

Installing the Insight Providers using HP SIM.................................................................................7

Installing the Insight Providers Smart Component...........................................................................9

Verifying HP Insight Providers Installation using HP WBEM Tools.....................................................9

Security requirements for the Insight Providers.............................................................................10

SNMP agent compatibility.......................................................................................................10

3 Uninstalling SNMP-Based HP Insight Management Agents.............................11

Introduction............................................................................................................................11

Uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents on a single local server.............................................11

Uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents on a single remote server..........................................11

Uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents on multiple remote servers using HP SIM......................11

Scripting commands for uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents.............................................13

Scripting commands for HP Insight Management Agents 6.30 through 7.60..............................13

Scripting commands for HP Insight Management Agents 7.70 or later.......................................13

4 Using the SMH with the Insight Providers.....................................................14

Change Data Source..............................................................................................................14

Auto Refresh..........................................................................................................................14

Threshold settings...................................................................................................................14

Data collection.......................................................................................................................15

5 Security...................................................................................................16

Security concerns....................................................................................................................16

Implementation.......................................................................................................................16

Best practices.........................................................................................................................16

Configuring Insight Provider Security for a User Account using HP SIM Configure and Repair

Agents..................................................................................................................................16

Configuring Insight Provider Security using the Windows Command Line........................................18

6 Windows Server® 2008 Firewall configuration............................................19

Firewall configuration introduction.............................................................................................19

Firewall configuration..............................................................................................................19

7 Insight Providers architecture......................................................................21

Architecture overview..............................................................................................................21

Data model...........................................................................................................................22

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition examples........................................................................25

Insight Providers usage............................................................................................................27

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