HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

The Configure or Repair Agents feature on a Windows CMS also enables you to install various
agents and providers on a ProLiant or Itanium-based system with Windows operating system. It
can install:
• HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server
2008
• OpenSSH
• Version Control Agent for Windows
• Insight Management Advisors for Windows
Configuring or repairing the agents
You can install Insight Management Agents or providers, either WBEM or SNMP, on managed
systems so that HP SIM can collect inventory and status information from these systems and receive
event notifications from the systems. Installation is supported only on ProLiant or Itanium-based
servers with a Windows operating systems.
Procedure 236 Configuring or repairing the agents
1. Select Install Agentless Management Service (AMS) on HP ProLiant Gen8 servers running
Windows, Linux, or ESX to send all host operating system-specific data to the iLO 4 firmware.
2. Select Install Linux PSP or ESX Agents to install Linux PSP and ESX Agents which are a collection
of SNMP agents used by HP SIM to gather information from managed systems and send traps
to HP SIM.
3. Select Install WBEM / WMI Provider (HP Insight Management WBEM Provider) for Windows
to install WBEM or WMI providers on Windows managed systems.
4. Select Install SNMP Agent (Insight Management Advisor) for Windows to install the SNMP
agent on Windows managed systems. This Insight Management Agent allows network
monitoring and control.
5. Select Install OpenSSH to install OpenSSH on Windows managed systems.
6. Select Install the Version Control Agent for Windows (VCA) to install the HP VCA on Windows
managed systems. The HP VCA enables you to view the HP software installed on a system
and whether updates for the software are available in the repository.
Installs the HP VCA in conjunction with the Version Control Repository Manager and enables
management of the HP ProLiant software and firmware on the managed systems.
7. Select Register VM Host for VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Xen on
SLES and RHEL.
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