HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

TCP/IP networks has provided the necessary incentive to develop a standard method of managing
devices on the network.
Within the SNMP framework, manageable network devices (routers, bridges, servers, and so on)
contain a software component called a management agent. The agent monitors the various
subsystems of the network element and stores this information in a MIB. The agents enable the
device to generate traps, which can be sent to a trap destination server that is running HP SIM.
Conceptually, the MIB is a database that can be written to and read by a management application
using the SNMP protocol.
To obtain SNMP:
For Windows systems, if SNMP is not installed during the operating system installation, you can
install it from the Windows CD using Add or Remove Windows Component feature.
To install the HP Insight SNMP agents for ProLiant systems running on Linux x86 operating system,
go to http://www.software.hp.com/ and select the ProLiant Support Pack 7.90.
NOTE: The HP Insight SNMP agents cannot be installed on HP-UX systems.
To configure the read community string on the CMS, or to set the SNMPv3 Authentication and/or
Privacy (Encryption) parameters on the CMS, select Options→Protocol Settings→System Protocol
Settings from the HP SIM menu and click on the System credentials page to set the read community
string or to set the security name, security level, and SNMPv3 specific security parameters for a
particular server. To configure the read community string and SNMPv3 user details for multiple
systems, select Options→Protocol Settings→Global Protocol Settings and set the read community
string and/or set the SNMPv3 Authentication and/or Privacy (Encryption) parameters.
WBEM
WBEM is one of the newest management protocols. This protocol leverages the industry-standard
CIM as defined by the DMTF. HP SIM can communicate to systems directly using the WBEM
protocol or to the Windows WMI systems using the WMI Mapper Proxy. HP SIM uses WBEM to
communicate with storage system SMI-S WBEM providers. HP has been leading this effort through
its association with the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). WBEM is an initiative supported
by HP, Microsoft, Intel, BMC, Cisco, and 120 other platform, operating system, and application
software suppliers.
When WBEM is enabled, the management console can obtain information from any system that
supports WBEM. For WBEM to work, you must provide the correct user name and password for
the given system. WBEM enables a larger set of server and storage manageability data to be
collected and displayed on the System Page and in reports. The presence of WBEM enables the
Properties pages and enables WBEM indications (events) to be displayed in event collections.
Without HTTPS enabled, HP SIM does not discover any web-based features on a system. Support
for non-HP systems has been expanded beginning with HP SIM 6.0.
NOTE: HP SIM supports WBEM over HTTPS to ensure user supplied WBEM name and password
pairs are protected.
NOTE: OpenWBEM is not supported.
• 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 install. For Linux Itanium Processor
Family (IPF), if WBEM is not installed, it must be manually installed. 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 Systems Insight Manager
to manage Linux x86 systems.
54 Initial setup