Entering wbem settings – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual
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Entering WBEM settings
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) uses the
Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
protocol to
communicate with managed
. You can enter WBEM settings in the First Time Wizard or in the HP
SIM menu bar. (GUI) To disable WBEM communication or enter settings in the GUI, select Options
→Protocol
Settings
→Global Protocol Settings.
If you do not have WBEM systems in your network, you do not need to enter information here. If you have
WBEM systems and you do not enter the user names and passwords for these systems, HP SIM will not
discover them.
NOTE:
See
“Setting protocols for a system or groups of systems”
for information on fine tuning protocol
settings for a single system or a group of similar systems.
1.
In the User Name, Password, and Confirm Password fields, enter as many default user names and
passwords as needed. These defaults apply to all newly discovered systems.
Note: HP recommends limiting the WBEM user name and password pairs to 10 to reduce the overall
discovery run time. To add more than 10 WBEM user name and password pairs, run mxnodesecurity
-a -p wbem -c
username:password for each additional set. You can also create an XML file that
defines your system authorizations prior to running discovery. See
“Example XML file to add more than
10 WBEM username and password pairs”
for more information.
If your network includes
, enter the user name and password of each
in
this section. For example, if you have an HP HBA (Emulex OEM) for Windows, enter the user name
cimadmin
and password pwd580. See your storage system's SMI-S provider documentation for
information about the SMI CIMOM username and password.
The system
process attempts each user name and password pair until a successful response
is obtained. Future WBEM requests to a system use the user name and password that succeeded. For
Windows-based systems, the user name must include the domain name, for example,
domainname\username.
Note: Enter the name and password pairs such that root and administrator passwords are listed first
and user and guest passwords are listed second. This order minimizes the search time.
Note: For UNIX, you need a root password for certain providers. The WBEM providers that require root
passwords are:
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FC HBA
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SCSI HBA
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IOTree
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LVM (root required only for Physical Volume Group information)
2.
Click Next to go to the next First Time Wizard step.
Note: The users used for WBEM access do not need to be configured to sign in.
Related procedures
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Enabling system automatic discovery
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Adding users to the Central Management Server
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Configuring automatic event handling
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