HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Credentials
In HP SIM, there are three different types of credentials:
• System credentials
Credentials used by identification to access managed systems. These credentials include
WBEM, WS-MAN, and SSH credentials, Sign-in, SNMP community string, and Single Sign-On
credentials. For more information, see System credentials.
• Discovery task credentials
Credentials used by a discovery task that apply to all systems discovered by that task. For
more information, see Configuring credentials for discovery tasks.
• Global Credentials
Global credentials are system credentials that apply to all systems. For more information, see
Global credentials.
Related information
Privilege elevation
Privilege elevation enables you to sign in as an unprivileged user and elevate the privilege to run
a tool and support running tools on operating systems, such as AIX and Solaris.
License Manager
License Manager enables you to view and manage product licenses within the HP SIM user interface.
To access additional information about Updates and Upgrades and Technical support, contact
your HP services or HP partner representative or access the IT Resource Center (ITRC) at
www.itrc.hp.com.
NOTE: To run License Manager, you must have administrative rights on the CMS (to set, select
Options+Security→Users and Authorizations→User) and choose the Configure CMS Security option,
and the All Tools toolbox (to set, select Options+Security→Users and Authorizations→User) on the
managed systems that you want to license.
You can view and assign licenses to specified target systems discovered by HP SIM. A product
may use artificial systems to contain licenses. Therefore, you may see names of non-existent systems.
System licenses can be reviewed by product. Licenses can be associated with specific systems.
Licenses can be collected and deployed to management processors. New licenses can be added
individually or in bulk from a file.License Manager database tables are updated and synchronized
daily at midnight or at HP SIM startup, and expired license information is sent to registered plug-ins.
For some products, License Manager only permits users to review system licenses, available licenses,
and add licenses. For other products, License Manager allows association of licenses with systems
selected by the user. The association of the license is dependent on the particular product. For
some products, licenses can be freely associated with selected systems and those associations can
be changed. However, in most cases the license is locked to the system once it is used with the
product. Once locked, associations can no longer be changed. For other products, the product
association is permanent once made in License Manager. Finally, some products allow License
Manager to manage their licenses entirely such that selection and licensing systems is final. The
distinction between these latter modes is that associations may be changed if the user options
include Assign / Unassign and are final if there is one option, Apply.
License Manager includes functionality to collect and deploy licenses with most management
processors. The License Manager core establishes and maintains a secure communication channel
for license deployment with the management processor through two options provided by HP SIM,
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Secure Shell (SSH). Both, SSL and SSH meet the requirements for
a secure channel. If the target systems are management processors, the management processor
26 Product overview