HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Single Sign On feature
SSO grants permission to an authenticated user browsing to HP SIM to browse to any of the
managed systems from within HP SIM without re-authenticating to the managed system. This enables
HP SIM users to browse to HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH), Management Processors,
Onboard Administrator, HP Version Control Agent, and so on. HP SIM is the initial point of
authentication, and browsing to another managed system must be from within HP SIM.
SSO sets the trust mode to \Trust by Certificate\ in the system and by copying the HP SIM system
certificate to the managed system's trusted certificate directory. Setting a trust relationship enables
the managed system to specify which HP SIM servers can issue commands to the system. Without
an established trust relationship, these commands fail. This is also a prerequisite if you want to
execute Replicate Agent Settings or Install Software and Firmware tasks on the managed systems.
To install HP SMH on a Windows managed system from Windows CMS, select the Inventory
feature in the Insight managed system setup wizard.
To install HP SMH on a Linux managed system from Windows or Linux CMS, select the Inventory
feature, and then select the SNMP protocol as the preferred protocol. HP SIM does not support
installing HP SMH on a HP-UX managed system.
For information on setting up managed systems from HP-UX, Linux, and Windows, see the following:
Setting up remote HP-UX systems from an HP-UX CMS, Setting up remote Linux systems from a
Linux CMS, and Setting up Windows managed systems manually.
This feature is supported on all HP Servers with HP SMH installed or on all iLOs, iLO2s, iLo3s, and
ProLiant OA's.
NOTE: Checking trust status on HP iLO systems is not supported.
Events feature
The Events feature configures HP SIM to receive WBEM and SNMP events from managed sytems.
WBEM indications and SNMP trap events can be configured.
Configuration
To configure SNMP agents, subscribe to WBEM indications, and configure SNMP traps, see
Installing and configuring SNMP agent.
For more information on manually installing providers, see Installing and configuring protocols.
For more information on manually installing SNMP agents, see Installing the SNMP provider for
Windows.
Version Control feature
The Version Control feature enables you to configure the managed systems to use HP Version
Control Repository Manager. This feature is available for all ProLiant Windows servers. HP Version
Control Repository Manager must be installed on the Central Management Server (CMS).
This feature will let you install VCA on the managed systems and configure it to use the VCRM in
HP SIM. If you do not have a VCRM in HP SIM, then, to configure HP Version Control Agent, see
Installing and configuring Version Control.
To configure HP VCRM, see Specifying a Version Control Repository.
HP Insight managed system setup wizard - Protocol Preferences
SNMP
The IETF, the standards-rating body for the worldwide Internet, has defined a management protocol,
SNMP, which has accumulated a major share of the market and has the support of over 20,000
different products. SNMP has its roots in the Internet community. The complexity of large international
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