HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 6)

Dependencies...............................................................................................................97
Warning......................................................................................................................97
Changing the database associated with the CMS..............................................................97
20 Understanding HP SIM security.............................................................98
Securing communication.....................................................................................................98
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)..............................................................................................98
Secure Shell (SSH).........................................................................................................98
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)......................................................................98
Secure Task Execution (STE) and Single Sign-On (SSO)......................................................98
Distributed Task Facility (DTF)..........................................................................................98
WBEM........................................................................................................................99
LDAP...........................................................................................................................99
RMI.............................................................................................................................99
Credentials management....................................................................................................99
SSL certificates..............................................................................................................99
HP SIM main certificate.............................................................................................99
WBEM certificate.....................................................................................................99
Upgrading to HP SIM 7.0..........................................................................................99
Certificate expiration and Certificate Revocation Check (CLR Check)..................................100
Source of client and server certificates.......................................................................100
Enabling or disabling certificate revocation check.......................................................100
Offline and online mode of certificate revocation check...............................................100
Offline mode....................................................................................................100
Online mode....................................................................................................100
CRL distribution points.............................................................................................101
Warning or error....................................................................................................101
Conditions for warning............................................................................................101
Customizable properties..........................................................................................101
Certificate sharing.......................................................................................................102
SSH keys....................................................................................................................102
Passwords..................................................................................................................102
Browser..........................................................................................................................102
SSL............................................................................................................................102
Cookies.....................................................................................................................102
Passwords..................................................................................................................103
Password warnings......................................................................................................103
Browser session...........................................................................................................103
Internet Explorer zones.................................................................................................103
System link format.......................................................................................................104
Operating-system dependencies.........................................................................................104
User accounts and authentication..................................................................................104
File system..................................................................................................................104
Background processes.................................................................................................104
Windows Cygwin.......................................................................................................105
HP-UX and Linux.........................................................................................................105
HP SIM database.............................................................................................................105
SQL Server and MSDE.................................................................................................105
Remote SQL Server......................................................................................................105
PostgreSQL.................................................................................................................105
Oracle.......................................................................................................................105
Command-line interface....................................................................................................105
How to: configuration checklist..........................................................................................106
General.....................................................................................................................106
Configuring the CMS...................................................................................................106
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