HP Insight Management 7.0 Getting Started Guide (7.0 and 7.1)

◦ Choose passwords that include at least three of these four characteristics: numeric
characters, special characters, lowercase characters, and uppercase characters
• Protect SNMP traffic. Although only read-only access through SNMP is used by the Insight
Management components, HP recommends that administrators reset the community strings
according to the same guidelines as administrative passwords. HP also recommends that
administrators set firewalls or routers to accept only specific source and destination addresses.
If SNMP is not desired, administrators disable this feature at the host. Administrators can also
disable the iLO SNMP pass-through.
• Use HP Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), when available, because it provides a
greater degree of security than SNMP.
See the following sources for more information about security in Insight Management:
• Managing HP servers through firewalls white paper:
http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/docs
• Secure Shell (SSH) in HP SIM white paper:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01651751/
C01651751.pdf
• HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide:
http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/sim/docs
8 Introduction to HP Insight Management