HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Procedure 47 Creating and editing discovery credentials for a single system
1. The following tabs are available in the credentials section:
• Sign in
This tab enables you to set one credential for all protocols.
• SNMP
This tab enables you to set one SNMP community string.
For advanced and protocol-specific settings, click Show advanced protocol credentials to
the right of the tabs. The following additional tabs appear.
• SNMPv3
This tab enables you to set SNMPv3 credentials.
This is not applicable for Windows systems.
• WBEM/WMI
This tab enables you to set WBEM credentials.
• WS-MAN
This tab enables you to set WS-MAN credentials.
• VME
This tab enables you to set VME credentials that were configured on the VMWare vCenter
Server Web Services page during VMWare vCenter Server installation. This is not
available when creating a discovery task until after the VMWare vCenter servers are
discovered.
2. For each setting on the Sign In, SNMP, SNMPv3, WBEM, / WMI, and WS-MAN tabs, there
is a checkbox that, when checked, indicates to HP SIM that if these credentials should fail for
some reason, then others should be tried in accordance with the numbered list above. For
example, if the Sign-in credential entered here was invalid, and the checkbox was checked,
then the discovery level credentials (if any) would be then tried. This control gives you flexibility
where your credentials are specified, but also carries a risk in performance and might trigger
a security event if many credentials are tried to find one that works.
3. Click OK, to have data from all the tabs saved for the current session. Depending on the
number of systems, this can take several minutes. The progress of this task can be monitored
by clicking the View Task Results button. Once the task is complete, the System Credentials
page (Options→Security→Credentials→System Credentials) will show the new working
credentials.
4. To save changes, click Save. Otherwise, the credentials will only be saved for the current
session.
Procedure 48 Deleting system credentials individually
1. Make all of the credential information for the system blank.
2. To delete cleared credentials for your current session, click OK. The next time discovery is run,
the working credentials will be redetermined, as described above.
3. In the next window, for the credentials to be deleted permanently, click Save. Otherwise, the
credentials will only be saved for the current session.
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