Secure Access

Command Line Interface

When you access HP Systems Insight Manager from the CLI, your operating system login is used to identify you to HP Systems Insight Manager. You have access to use the HP Systems Insight Manager commands based on your authorizations. If you access HP Systems Insight Manager from any system other than the CMS, be sure you use an SSH client. Programs like telnet, rlogin, and ftp do not provide encrypted access. When you use one of these applications to access HP Systems Insight Manager, your data including your password is transmitted across the network unencrypted. In addition, these protocols are not spoof-protected. If you have a Windows CMS, then only administrators have command line access to HP Systems Insight Manager. A remote desktop connection to the CMS can be used to access the command line.

Graphical User Interface

When you access the HP Systems Insight Manager from a Web browser, you log on using the secure HTML login page. The user name and password for the login page are the same as your CMS operating system user name and password. A Windows CMS also requires a domain name. Your information is securely transmitted using the SSL protocol. SSL provides data encryption and server authentication by using a public and private key technology. The Web server on the CMS uses a certificate for server authentication. By default, this certificate is self-signed, but it can be replaced by a certificate that is signed by a trusted certificate authority. Your Web browser should import this certificate to trust the CMS.