HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

To obtain SNMP:
For Windows systems, if SNMP is not installed during the operating system installation, you can
install it from the Windows CD using Add or Remove Windows Component feature.
To install the HP Insight SNMP agents for ProLiant systems running on Linux x86 operating system,
go to http://www.software.hp.com/ and select the ProLiant Support Pack 7.90.
NOTE: The HP Insight SNMP agents cannot be installed on HP-UX systems.
To install the SNMP provider from the Manage Communications page, select Quick Repair→Install
Providers and Agents→Install SNMP Agents (Insight Management Agents) for Windows.
To configure the read community string on the CMS, select Options→Protocol Settings→System
Protocol Settings from the HP SIM menu and click on the System credentials page to set the read
community string for a particular server. To configure the read community string for multiple systems,
select Options→Protocol Settings→Global Protocol Settings and set the read community string.
Configuring SNMP
Select Set read public community string to specify a community string. By default, the first Systems
Insight Manager community string that is not public appears. If no community string exists in Systems
Insight Manager, you must enter one.
NOTE: If you configure only HP-UX systems with default SNMP installations, you do not need to
set this option. HP-UX enables read by default (get-community-name is set to public by default on
HP-UX systems).
NOTE: If you select this option, the Read Only community string is added to the target systems.
If the target system is SuSE Linux or Microsoft Windows 2003, the managed systems do not always
enable SNMP communication between themselves and a remote host. This setting is modified to
enable the instance of the Systems Insight Manager system to communicate using SNMP with these
target systems.
NOTE: You can enter a community string up to 255 characters.
Select Set traps to refer to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager in the target systems SNMP
Trap Destination List. This setting enables the target systems to send SNMP traps to this instance
of Systems Insight Manager.
Select Send a sample SNMP trap to this instance of the Systems Insight Manager to test that events
appear in Systems Insight Manager event lists to verify that SNMP events appear in the Systems
Insight Manager events list.
To successfully send a test trap, you must configure target systems to send a trap to this instance.
NOTE: You can send a test trap only from a managed system with an HP Insight Management
Agents installed.
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