HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

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WBEM indications
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) enables you to add and remove subscriptions to Web-Based Enterprise
Management (WBEM) indication events through the GUI. You can also add and remove subscriptions to
WBEM indication events from the command line interface (CLI). If you do not subscribe to WBEM indication
events for a system that supports them, any WBEM events that occur will not appear on the event table view
page.
OpenSSH must be installed and set up on the Central Management Server (CMS) with the keys enabled for
SSH. See “Installing OpenSSH” for more information.
WBEM events support HP-UX, Linux, and SMI-S devices (such as storage, switches, and tape libraries).
WBEM events for HP-UX and Linux systems require WBEM services 2.0 to be installed on the managed
systems. Each managed system must have the correct event provider installed (for example, the EMS wrapper
indication (event) provider on HP-UX). See “Setting up managed systems” for information about installing
WBEM services and providers. The mxwbemsub command requires root privilege on HP-UX or Linux.
OpenSSH is only used when menu tools are executed. If mxwbemsub is executed at the command line, it
does not require OpenSSH.
Instant capacity (iCAP) properties for cells and processors for a complex is collected and displayed using
the HP-UX WBEM. Data collection collects software and firmware information from HP-UX, NSK, Linux
Integrity, and ProLiant boxes whenever the providers are available. See “Setting up managed systems” for
information about installing WBEM services and providers.
NOTE: The iCAP provider is available on HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31), HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) and HP-UX 11i
v1 (11.11) which can only be installed on HP 9000 servers.
The supported versions for indications on Linux IPF include:
• RHEL4
• RHEL5
• SLES9
• SLES10
Also, the HP ProLiant Support Pack 3.90 or later should be installed on the system.
To set the port on which WBEM indications are received, edit the globalsettings.props file and the
WBEM_indications_Listener_Port property. The default value for the port is 50004
(WBEM_indications_Listener_Port=50004). If this port is unavailable, edit the file and assign a
suitable value. If HP SIM is running, stop the service and restart it for the new port to be accessed. If WBEM
event subscriptions have been set up with the default port settings, delete and add the subscriptions again
so that the new port is used when WBEM events are sent to the CMS.
You can subscribe and unsubscribe to WBEM indication events. To access these options, select
Options→Events→Subscribe to WBEM Events and Options→Events→Unsubscribe to WBEM
Events.
Related procedures
• Subscribing to WBEM indications
• Unsubscribing to WBEM indications
556 Administering systems and events