HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Procedure 83 Configuring sign-in credentials for specific systems
1. Choose one of the following options:
• Replace each selected system sign-in credentials with the following
Use this option to replace sign-in credentials for selected systems.
a. Enter the user name and password.
b. To use other credentials if the assigned credentials fail, select If these credentials fail,
try other credentials that may apply. Click the Learn more link for additional
information. By default this box is not selected, unless you have upgraded HP SIM.
• Replace the selected system's sign-in credentials individually as follows
Use this option to add new credentials, or to modify or delete existing credentials
individually for selected systems. This option is not available when a single system is
selected.
a. Enter the user name and password for the individual systems.
b. To use other credentials if the assigned credentials fail, check Try others. On new
installations, this is not selected by default. However, for upgrades, the box is selected
for migrated systems. This option appears for each password entered.
2. To save changes and start identification in the background, click OK. To cancel changes, click
Cancel.
Related information
Single sign on credentials
The Single Sign On tab enables you to set the trust by certificate relationship to connect to the HP
SMH, Onboard Administrator, iLO management processor, and HP Version Control Agent using
the HP SIM certificate for authentication.
Procedure 84 Configuring Single Sign On credentials
1. Click Show advanced protocol credentials.
2. Select the Single Sign On tab.
3. Configure Single Sign-On for each selected system by selecting Set Trust relationships to "Trust
by Certificate". Requires additional credentials so that Configure or Repair Agents can be run
on the target systems.
4. (Optional) If you selected any system for Trust by Certificate, the Additional credentials required
to save the configurations for WBEM, SSH, and/or Single sign-On Section appears. Select
from:
a. Use sign-in credentials entered in HP SIM. These credentials must be for an account with
administrator or root access on the selected system.
b. Use the following credentials for all systems. Enter the user name, password,, and domain
credentials to use for all selected systems.
These Configure or Repair Agents credentials apply to the WBEM, SSH, and Single Sign
On protocols. You must enter them only once and they are pre-populated on each tab.
5. To save changes and start the Configure or Repair Agents task (followed by identification) in
the background, click OK>. To cancel changes, click Cancel
Related information
SNMP credentials
One set of SNMP community strings can be applied to the set of selected systems or each system
can set its own community string.
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