HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide, December 2006

7. Select the level of security you want to provide from one of the following trust modes:
a. Trust By Certificate
i. Click Next. The Trusted Certificates dialog box appears. The Trusted Certificates dialog
box allows trusted certificate files to be added to the Trusted Certificate List.
ii. Click Add File to browse and select any certificates to be included in the Trusted Certificate
List. The Add File dialog box appears. If an invalid file name is entered in the file name
field, an error message appears, indicating the file does not exist. Click OK to select another
file, or click Cancel to close the dialog box. The Trusted Certificate List appears.
Note: If you click Next without adding any certificates to the list and no certificates exist
from a previous installation, a message appears indicating that if you do not specify any
trusted certificates, HP Systems Insight Manager cannot access the HP Insight Management
Agents on this system. Click OK if you do not want HP Systems Insight Manager to access
the Insight Management Agents on this system, or click Cancel to close the dialog box and
add the trusted certificates to the list.
Note: The Trust By Certificates option enables the HP SMH system and the HP Systems
Insight Manager system to establish a trust relationship by means of certificates. This mode
is the strongest method of security because it requires certificate data and verifies the digital
signature before enabling access.
iii. Click Next. The IP Binding dialog box appears.
or
i. Click Import. The Import Server Certificate dialog box appears.
ii. Enter the name or IP address of the server whose certificate you want to import.
iii. Click Get Cert. The certificate information appears.
iv. Verify the certificate information. If you want to add this certificate to the Trusted Certificate
List, click Accept and the certificate is added to the Trusted Certificate List, or click Cancel
if you do not want to add it to the Trusted Certificate List. The Trusted Certificate List
appears.
Note: You can add an unlimited number of trusted certificates.
v. Click Next. The IP Binding dialog box appears. Click Back to return to the Trust Mode
dialog box.
Note: To delete a certificate, select the certificate and click Delete. The selected certificate is
removed.
b. Trust By Name
i. Select Trust By Name.
ii. Click Next. The Trusted Server dialog box appears.
Note: Although the Trust By Name mode is a slightly stronger method of security than the
Trust All mode, it still leaves your system vulnerable to security attacks. The Trust By Name
mode sets up HP SMH to only accept certain requests from servers with the HP Systems
Insight Manager names designated in the Trust By Name field. The Trust By Name option
is easy to configure and can prevent unauthorized access. For example, you might want to
use the Trust By Name option if you have a secure network, but your network has two
groups of administrators in two separate divisions. The Trust By Name option would prevent
one group from installing software to the wrong system. This option does not verify anything
other than the HP Systems Insight Manager server name submitted.
iii. Enter the names of the servers you want to trust.
Note: The server name cannot contain the following characters: ~, !, `, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, (, ),
+, =, ", :, ', <, >, ?, ,, |, and ;.
iv. Click Add to add the name of a server you want to trust.
v. Click Next. The IP Binding dialog box appears.
Note: If you click Next without adding any server names to the list, an error message appears,
indicating that if you do not specify any trusted server names, HP Systems Insight Manager
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