HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Contents
1 Legal notices............................................................................................20
Copyright notice.....................................................................................................................20
Warranty..............................................................................................................................20
Restricted rights legend............................................................................................................20
Acknowledgments...................................................................................................................20
2 Online help.............................................................................................21
HP SIM help categories...........................................................................................................21
3 Product overview......................................................................................22
Introduction............................................................................................................................22
HP SIM features......................................................................................................................22
Security............................................................................................................................23
Installation........................................................................................................................23
Discovery..........................................................................................................................23
Custom tools.....................................................................................................................23
Reporting..........................................................................................................................23
Product architecture.................................................................................................................24
Central management server.................................................................................................24
Managed systems..............................................................................................................24
Web-browser clients...........................................................................................................24
Security.................................................................................................................................24
Sign-in and accounts..........................................................................................................25
Single Sign On, Replicate Agent Settings, and Install Software and Firmware............................25
Certificates........................................................................................................................25
Credentials.......................................................................................................................26
Privilege elevation..............................................................................................................26
License Manager....................................................................................................................26
CLI mxlmkeyconfig.............................................................................................................27
HP SIM command line tools.....................................................................................................28
Command line interface......................................................................................................28
Custom tools..........................................................................................................................28
4 Initial setup..............................................................................................29
Setting language locale...........................................................................................................29
Setting the web browser language or locale..........................................................................30
Configuring the language or locale settings on Windows operating systems..............................30
Configuring HP-UX and Linux language settings.....................................................................31
Configuring HP SIM...........................................................................................................31
CMS locale..................................................................................................................32
Target locale................................................................................................................32
Signing in..............................................................................................................................33
Signing in to the GUI.........................................................................................................33
Manually signing in to HP SIM........................................................................................34
Automatically signing in.................................................................................................34
Signing in using SSL......................................................................................................36
Logging in to the CLI..........................................................................................................36
Logging in to the CMS directly........................................................................................37
Logging in to the CMS remotely using an SSH client..........................................................37
Single Sign On......................................................................................................................37
Signing in..............................................................................................................................38
Sign-in authentication on Linux and HP-UX.................................................................................38
Configuring PAM on a Linux system......................................................................................39
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