HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Procedure 51 Creating a Configure or Repair Agents task
1. To disable the Configure or Repair Agents task, select Configure newly managed systems
when they are first discovered in the Configure Managed Systems section. For more information,
see Configuring managed systems.
a. Select Configure newly managed systems when they are first discovered..
b. To specify credentials to configure the managed system for WBEM / WMI, SNMP, and
SSH, select from the following:
• Use sign in credentials
This account must be an account with administrative privileges.
• Use these credentials
Select this option to use another user name and password pair other than the one
entered into HP SIM.
c. Under Configure WBEM / WMI, select from the following:
• Create subscriptions to WBEM events
• Send a test WBEM / WMI indication to this instance of Systems Insight Manager to
make sure that events appear in Systems Insight Manager events lists
• Use an HP SIM WBEM certificate (good for 10 years) rather than
username/password to manage the system
d. Under Configure SNMP, select from the following:
• Set read community string
• Set traps to refer to this instance of HP SIM
A read/write SNMP community string is automatically created on a managed
Windows system’s SNMP settings.
• Send a test SNMP trap to this instance of Systems Insight Manager to make sure
events appear in the HP SIM event lists
e. Under Configure secure shell (SSH) access, select from the following:
• Host based authentication
All users from this instance of HP SIM are authenticated on the managed system.
• Each user has to be authenticated on the managed system
Each user must be authenticated on the managed system.
f. Select Set trust relationship to "Trust by Certificate" to set a trust relationship between
managed systems and the CMS. This enables HP SIM users to connect to HP SMH,
Onboard Administrator, management processors, and Version Control Agent using the
HP SIM certificate for authentication.
2. Click OK to have data saved for the current session.
3. To save changes, click Save. Otherwise, the credentials will only be saved for the current
session.
Discovery related information
Configuring system types for discovery tasks
This procedure enables you to configure system types when creating or editing a discovery task
for a single system. Perform these steps from the New Discovery Task or the Edit Discovery Task
sections of the Discovery page.
Discovery in HP SIM 201