HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

The CMS must have the correct credentials to authenticate to WBEM and WMI. There are
two ways to authenticate client certificates:
◦ Basic authentication to WBEM Services or WMI using user name and password.
◦ Using the CMS certificate for authentication is available only for HP-UX WBEM Services
2.05 or greater, which supports client certificate authentication. Use the Configure or
Repair Agents Use an HP SIM WBEM certificate (good for 10 years) rather than
username/password to manage the system option to deploy a WBEM certificate to the
managed system and is valid only for HP-UX systems.
• WMI
An API in the Windows operating system that enables you to manage and control systems in
a network.
The WMI Mapper Proxy is a configuration setting for WMI. The WMI Mapper receives client
CIM/XML WBEM requests and converts the requests to WMI requests. The WMI results are
converted to CIM/XML format and returned to the CMS. The discovery and Identification task
uses the proxies in the WMI Mapper Proxy list to discover whether a system is a WMI-enabled
system. If the system is WMI-enabled, then the identification information for that system is
returned.
The WMI Mapper makes it possible to retrieve WMI instrumented data on a Windows machine
through WBEM requests. The Windows version of HP SIM installs this WMI Mapper locally
so that it can make WMI requests across the network to the systems without the need to install
the WMI Mapper on the managed Windows systems.
The WMI Mapper is included in a Typical installation of the HP SIM on a Windows CMS
(optional in a Custom installation) . For HP-UX and Linux-based systems, the WMI Mapper is
not available.
Configuring WBEM/WMI
Configuring WBEM enables you to configure a target Linux, Windows, or HP-UX system to send
WBEM indications or events to HP SIM.
You can add and remove subscriptions to WBEM indication events through the GUI and add and
remove subscriptions to WBEM indication events using the CLI. If you do not subscribe to WBEM
indication events for a system that supports them, any WBEM events that occur do not appear on
the event table view page.
Monitoring systems, clusters, and events
You can monitor systems, clusters, and events using the tools in the System and Event Collections
panel. These tools enable you to locate more information about systems and events and quickly
select systems to perform tasks. From System and Event Collections panel, you can quickly access
the System Overview page, the All Systems page, and the All Events page. You can also save
searches in private collections under Systems or Events. See Saving collections for more information.
About collections
Systems and events are grouped into collections based on information from the HP SIM database.
After a collection is defined, you can display the results or associate the collection with a task. You
can also save an edited or unedited collection as a collection with another name.
You can use collections to organize large numbers of systems into smaller, more meaningful
groupings. For example, your organization might have five system administrators who are
responsible for 100 different systems in 6 different buildings. You can create a collection for each
administrator that includes only his or her systems, or you can create a collection for each building
that includes only the systems located in that building.
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