HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Configuring privilege elevation on HP-UX
From this page, you can enable privilege elevation for Linux, HP-UX, and ESX managed systems.
This enables you to sign in as an unprivileged user and elevate the privilege to run on these
operating systems.
You can also configure privilege elevation from the HP SIM menu by selecting
Options→Security→Privilege Elevation.
Procedure 18 Configure privilege elevation for ESX systems
1. Select Enable privilege elevation for VMware ESX.
To configure privilege elevation for Linux and HP-UX systems, select Enable privilege elevation
for Linux & HP-UX.
2. Select the elevation tool type from the menu.
If a password is required for the tool, select A password is required for this privilege elevation
tool.
3. Optional: Edit the Privilege elevation tool command.
4. Select the user to sign in to the managed system:
• Same as HP SIM signed-in user
• Specify at run time
• Use this user and enter the user name
5. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click Next, or to return to the previous step, click
Previous.
First Time Wizard related topics
Configuring e-mail settings
Procedure 19 Email settings
1. Enter the SMTP host name. The SMTP host is the outgoing e-mail server that the CMS uses to
send e-mail notifications.
2. In the Sender's e-mail address box, enter the e-mail address that the management server uses
when sending e-mail notifications.
3. Optional: Select Send test email and enter recipients e-mail address.
Click Send test email now.
4. To authenticate your SMTP server, select Server Requires Authentication.
5. Enter the account user name and password in the corresponding boxes.
NOTE: If you did not enter a valid SMTP host, HP SIM display an error message: The email
could not be sent: Could not connect to the SMTP host.
If you are changing the e-mail settings from the Options→Events→Automatic Event
Handling→Email Settings page, click OK to save changes.
NOTE: If you did not enter a valid SMTP host, HP SIM display an error message: The email could
not be sent: Could not connect to the SMTP host.
NOTE: If the Server Requires Authentication option is selected, and you enter incorrect account
information, an The email could not be sent: Authentication error message displays.
Additional e-mail settings
The globalsettings.props contains properties that can be set for additional information to
be included in e-mail messages.
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