HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 User Guide

Creating custom tools through the HP SIM CLI......................................................................102
Creating a custom SSA tool..........................................................................................102
Example Web launch tool............................................................................................104
Example MSA tool......................................................................................................105
Example Enabling Remote Desktop tool..........................................................................106
Adding a TDEF to HP SIM............................................................................................107
Removing a TDEF from HP SIM.....................................................................................107
Modifying a TDEF.......................................................................................................108
18 Federated Search..............................................................................109
Federated CMS Configuration...........................................................................................109
19 CMS reconfigure tools.......................................................................111
Operational Commands, Options and Parameters................................................................111
Reconfiguring the CMS password.......................................................................................112
Warnings...................................................................................................................112
Dependencies.............................................................................................................112
Reconfiguring the CMS host and IP attributes.......................................................................112
Warning....................................................................................................................113
Dependencies.............................................................................................................113
Reconfiguring the CMS database credentials.......................................................................113
Warning....................................................................................................................114
Dependencies.............................................................................................................114
Reconfiguring the CMS to use a different database..............................................................114
Warning....................................................................................................................115
Dependencies.............................................................................................................115
20 Understanding HP SIM security...........................................................117
Securing communication...................................................................................................117
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)............................................................................................117
Secure Shell (SSH).......................................................................................................117
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)....................................................................117
Secure Task Execution (STE) and Single Sign-On (SSO)....................................................117
Distributed Task Facility (DTF)........................................................................................117
WBEM......................................................................................................................118
LDAP.........................................................................................................................118
RMI...........................................................................................................................118
Credentials management..................................................................................................118
SSL certificates............................................................................................................118
HP SIM main certificate...........................................................................................118
HP SIM Single Sigon-On (SSO) certificate..................................................................118
Key Length.............................................................................................................118
Using the main certificate for SSO............................................................................119
WBEM certificate...................................................................................................119
Upgrading to HP SIM 7.0........................................................................................119
Certificate expiration and Certificate Revocation Check (CLR Check)..................................119
Certificate sharing.......................................................................................................119
SSH keys....................................................................................................................119
Passwords..................................................................................................................120
Browser..........................................................................................................................120
SSL............................................................................................................................120
Cookies.....................................................................................................................120
Passwords..................................................................................................................120
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