HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Signing in
Signing in to HP SIM allows access to HP SIM and determines what authorizations you have in
HP SIM. Browsing to HP SIM using SSL encrypts all information between the browser and HP SIM,
including sign in credentials. SSL securely encrypts the password and helps prevent someone from
capturing and replaying a valid sign-in sequence.
The sign-in page has three fields:
• User Name. The name of the user.
• Password. The password for the user name.
• Domain Name. The Windows domain of the user. This field appears in Windows environments
only.
NOTE: In a Windows environment, administrators are selected from the operating system during
the HP SIM installation. To sign in to HP SIM, enter the appropriate information for the account in
the fields provided. The User Name field specifies the user name, and the Domain Name specifies
the Windows domain. These fields are required in a Windows environment.
After the credentials are securely received by HP SIM, HP SIM validates the account, verifies that
the IP address is valid, and authenticates the credentials against the Windows domain. See Users
and authorizations for details about accounts.
Some sign in failures are caused by failure in the operating system, and some are caused by failure
within HP SIM. Use the operating system User Management tools to address these potential login
failures:
• Sign in credentials are not entered correctly. Passwords are case-sensitive.
• The account has been deleted, disabled, or locked out.
• The password for the account has expired or must be changed.
The following reasons for sign-in failure within HP SIM can be addressed on the HP SIM Users and
Authorizations pages:
• The account is not an account for HP SIM.
• You attempt to sign in from an IP address that is not valid for the specified account. The browser
systems can also cause sign-in failures.
• The browser is not configured to accept cookies.
NOTE: For more information, go to http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/
management/hpsim/infolibrary.html, and select the appropriate guide for your operating
system.
• A cookie blocker is installed.
NOTE: HP SIM can be configured to log an event in the HP SIM Event Database when a sign-in
attempt fails or succeeds and when a sign-out occurs.
Sign-in authentication on Linux and HP-UX
HP SIM uses PAM to authenticate users who sign in to the web server interface on Linux and HP-UX.
38 Initial setup