Table Of Contents - HP ProLiant BL30p User Manual

Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 5
Overview ................................................................................................................................................. 5
Windows Management Instrumentation........................................................................................................ 5
Installing the HP Insight Providers.................................................................................................... 6
Insight Providers Smart Components ............................................................................................................ 6
Installing the Insight Providers with the PSP ................................................................................................... 6
Installing the Insight Providers as part of a SmartStart Assisted Path installation.................................................. 7
Installing the Insight Providers using HP SIM.................................................................................................. 8
Installing the Insight Providers Smart Component ........................................................................................... 9
Security requirements for the Insight Providers ............................................................................................. 10
SNMP agent compatibility ........................................................................................................................ 11
Uninstalling SNMP-Based HP Insight Management Agents ............................................................... 12
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 12
Uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents on a single local server .............................................................. 12
Uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents on a single remote server ........................................................... 12
Uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents on multiple remote servers using HP SIM ...................................... 13
Scripting commands for uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents.............................................................. 14
Scripting commands for HP Insight Management Agents 6.30 through 7.60 ......................................... 14
Scripting commands for HP Insight Management Agents 7.70 or later.................................................. 15
Using the SMH with the Insight Providers ....................................................................................... 16
Introduction to SMH................................................................................................................................. 16
Change Data Source ............................................................................................................................... 16
Auto Refresh ........................................................................................................................................... 16
Threshold settings .................................................................................................................................... 16
Data collection........................................................................................................................................ 17
Security ..................................................................................................................................... 18
Security concerns .................................................................................................................................... 18
Implementation ....................................................................................................................................... 18
Best practices.......................................................................................................................................... 18
Configuring Insight Provider Security for a User Account using HP SIM Configure and Repair Agents................. 19
Configuring Insight Provider Security using the Windows Command Line........................................................ 20
Windows Server 2008 Firewall configuration ................................................................................ 22
Firewall configuration introduction ............................................................................................................. 22
Firewall configuration .............................................................................................................................. 22
Insight Providers architecture ........................................................................................................ 24
Architecture overview .............................................................................................................................. 24
Data model ............................................................................................................................................ 25
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition examples........................................................................................ 28
Insight Providers usage ............................................................................................................................ 31
Additional documentation ........................................................................................................................ 32
Scripting .................................................................................................................................... 33
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