HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Installing and configuring protocols
The following management protocols are used by HP SIM:
• WBEM
This industry initiative provides management of systems, networks, users, and applications
across multiple vendor environments. WBEM simplifies system management, providing better
access to software and hardware data that is readable by WBEM client applications.
For HP-UX, WBEM is included in the operating system installation. For Linux Itanium Processor
Family (IPF), you must install WBEM manually. Go to the HP Software Depot (http://
www.software.hp.com/) to download. The WBEM download from the openPegasus website
does not include the hardware-specific data for HP SIM to manage Linux x86 systems.
NOTE: WMI is the implementation of WBEM from Microsoft. For more information, see
WMI
An API in the Windows operating system that enables you to manage and control systems in
a network.
.
To install the HP Insight Management WBEM Provider, which is an HP extension of WBEM
providers for managing ProLiant systems running Windows 2003, from the Manage
Communications page, select Quick Repair→Install Providers and Agents→Install WBEM/WMI
Provider (HP Insight Management WBEM Provider) for Windows .
NOTE: The WBEM providers cannot be installed on HP-UX or Linux systems.
NOTE: A CIMOM acts as the interface for communication between WBEM providers and
management applications such as HP SIM.
The CMS must have the correct credentials to authenticate to WBEM and WMI. There are
two ways to authenticate HP SIM to a client:
◦ Basic authentication to WBEM Services or WMI using user name and password.
◦ Using the CMS certificate to authenticate is available only for HP-UX WBEM Services
02.05.00 or greater, which supports client certificate authentication. Use the Configure
or Repair Agents Use an HP SIM WBEM certificate (good for 10 years) rather than
username/password to manage the system option to deploy a WBEM certificate to the
managed system and is only valid for HP-UX systems.
• WMI
An API in the Windows operating system that enables you to manage and control systems in
a network.
The WMI Mapper Proxy is a configuration setting for WMI. The WMI Mapper receives client
CIM/XML WBEM requests and converts the requests to WMI requests. The WMI results are
converted to CIM/XML format and returned to the CMS. The discovery and Identification task
uses the proxies in the WMI Mapper Proxy list to discover whether a system is a WMI-enabled
system. If the system is WMI-enabled, then the identification information for that system is
returned.
The WMI Mapper makes it possible to retrieve WMI instrumented data on a Windows machine
through WBEM requests. The Windows version of HP SIM installs this WMI Mapper locally
so that it can make WMI requests across the network to the systems without the need to install
the WMI Mapper on the managed Windows systems.
The WMI Mapper is included in a Typical installation of HP SIM on a Windows CMS (optional
in a Custom install) . For HP-UX and Linux-based CMS, the WMI Mapper is not available.
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