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The HP Systems Insight Manager Configure or Repair Agents tool is a quick and easy way to configure
Linux, HP-UX and Windows managed systems to communicate with HP SIM from a Windows CMS. To run Configure or Repair Agents remotely against multiple systems simultaneously, you must have authorizations to run the Configure or Repair Agents tool. You must have full CMS configuration privileges to modify the HP Systems Insight Manager community strings in the node security file. In addition, you must enter administrator level user credentials for the target system. To configure agents remotely: Select Configure Configure or Repair Agents. The Step 1: Select Target Systems page appears.
Note: The Verify Target Systems page appears if the targets are selected before selecting a tool. To add targets, select a group from the dropdown list. The contents of the selected group appear and can be selected as targets. To select the entire collection, select Select "name of collection" itself. To remove a target, select the target’s checkbox, and then click Remove Targets. Click Next. The Step 2: Enter login credentials page appears. From the Step 2: Enter credentials page: In the User name field, enter the system administrator or root user name. In the Password field, enter the system administrator or root password for the user name previously entered. In the Password (Verify) field, reenter the system administrator password exactly as it was entered in the Password field. For Windows managed systems only, in the Domain field, enter the Windows domain.
Note: The credentials used in this step must work for all target systems that have been selected. HP recommends using domain administrator or root credentials.
Click Next. The Configure or Repair Settings page appears.
Step 3: Configure or Repair Settings enables you to select options to configure the target system. The following options are available:
Configure SNMP. Select this option to configure SNMP settings. If this option is selected, the following steps must be considered: Select Set read community string to specify a community string. By default, HP Systems Insight Manager's first community string, that is not public, appears in the field. If no community string exists in HP Systems Insight Manager, then you must enter one.
Note: If only HP-UX systems with default SNMP installation are being configured at this time, you can clear this option. HP-UX enables read by default (get-community-name is set to public by default on HP-UX systems).
Note: If this option is selected, the Read Only community string is added to the target systems. If the target system is SuSE Linux or Microsoft Windows 2003, the managed nodes do not always enable SNMP communication between themselves and a remote host. This setting is modified to enable the instance of the HP SIM system to communicate using SNMP with these target systems.
Note: You can enter a community string up to 255 characters.
Note: Repairing the SNMP settings adds a Read Write community string to the target system only if one does not currently exist. This community string is unique for each system, is composed of over 30 characters to include letters and numbers, and is only visible to the user with administrator privileges for that system. This Read Write community string is required by the Web Agent to perform certain threshold setting capabilities. This community string is only used locally on the target system and is not used by HP Systems Insight Manager over the network. Linux and HP-UX systems do not need a Read Write community string, hence the Read Write community is added on Windows systems only. Select Set traps to refer to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager in the target systems' SNMP Trap Destination List. This enables the target systems to send SNMP traps to this instance of HP SIM.
Trust relationship: Set to "Trust by Certificate". Select this option to require systems to use the Trust by Certificate trust relationship with the System Management Homepage. For System Management Homepage on the target systems, this option sets the trust mode to Trust by Certificate and copies the HP Systems Insight Manager system certificate to the target system's trusted certificate directory. This enables HP Systems Insight Manager users to connect to the System Management Homepage using the certificate for authentication.
Set administrator password for Insight Management Agents version 7.1 or earlier. Select this option to repair the administrator password on all Insight Management Agents installed on the target systems as applicable for Windows and Linux systems.
Note: This option does not apply to HP-UX. If you are configuring or repairing HP-UX systems, clear this option.
Note: Clear this option if you have Insight Management Agents 7.2 or later installed.
Note: If the remote system is running HP-UX, this option is not executed on the remote system since it is not applicable on HP-UX systems. If only HP-UX target systems are being configured at this time, you can clear this option. If this option is selected, you must complete the following steps: In the Password field, enter the new administrator password. In the Confirm Password field, re-enter the new administrator password exactly as you entered it previously.
Configure secure shell (SSH) access.
If this option is selected, you must select one of the following options:
Host based authentication for SSH
Note: For this option to work, the user name and password provided on the previous page must be an administrative level account. For Linux or HP-UX targets, it must be the "root" account and password.
Each user has to be authenticated on the managed system
Note: If the selected systems include Linux or HP-UX systems, and options for Configure SNMP settings, Trust relationships and administrator password was selected, then SSH authentication should be selected now unless already configured earlier.
Note: SSH can be configured only if the OpenSSH service is running on the managed systems. OpenSSH can be installed on Windows systems, by
running the Install Open SSH tool under DeployDeploy DriversFirmware and AgentsInstall Open SSH.
Create subscriptions for WBEM events.
Note: This option is only applicable to HP-UX systems. If this option is selected, the target system is configured to send WBEM indications or events to HP Systems Insight Manager.
Note: Subscriptions for WBEM events can be created only if WBEM event providers are installed and running on the managed systems.
Configure the WBEM Services on the target systems to support client certificate authentication.
Note: This option is only available for managing HP-UX systems running HP WBEM Services version A.02.05 or later. If this option is selected, an HP SIM WBEM certificate is registered with the WBEM Services trust store on the target systems. The user name associated with this certificate is the one provided in step 5, which should have root privilege. When discovery runs, the WBEM Services on the target systems would use this certificate to authenticate WBEM requests from HP SIM instead of using the basic authentication mechanism. For example, user name and password. The advantage of this technique for authentication is that you do not need to store passwords for WBEM access on your CMS.
Click Run Now. The Task Results page appears.
Note: Click Schedule to run this task at a later time.
Note: The Configure or Repair Agents tool can be used to update multiple target systems, each of which might potentially have different results. The log results indicate whether the repair attempt was successful.
Note: Repair of SNMP settings and Trust relationships and administrator password for Insight Management Agents 7.1 or earlier on Linux systems are executed by a separate task, which can be viewed in the tasks log menu selection. Repair of SNMP settings, Trust relationships on HP-UX systems is executed by a separate task, which can be viewed in the tasks log menu selection. If Linux and HP-UX systems are selected, there are two Task IDs, one for Linux and one for HP-UX systems. The Task Results page displays the following information:
Status. This field displays the details for each target system within a task instance.
Exit Code. This field represents the success or failure of an executable program. If the return value is zero or positive, the executable ran successfully. If a negative value is returned, the executable failed.
Target Name. This field displays the name/IP address of the target.
The stdout tab. This tab displays the output text information.
The stderr tab. This tab displays information if the executable experienced an error.
Files Copied tab. This tab displays what files are in the process of being copied or have been copied to the target system.
View Printable Report. Reports can be printed for the currently selected target system or for all target systems associated with the task instance.
To print a report: Click View Printable Report. An Options Message box appears, asking if you want to generate a report containing only the currently selected target system or all systems associated with the task instance. Select which report to display. Click OK to display the report, or click Cancel to return to the View Task Results page.
If the Management HTTP Server is installed on target systems, the login credentials are updated in the Management HTTP Server password file.
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