Chapter 38: Hp Om - Tavve zoneranger User Manual

Chapter 38: HP OM

ZoneRanger has the ability, via a separately licensed application, to support Hewlett-Packard's
Operations Manager (OM) application. The HP OM application licensed on ZoneRanger allows HP OM
agents residing on ZoneRanger managed devices to securely initiate communications with HP OM
servers residing within the secure area of the network.
Figure 38-1. HP OM Proxy Requests
In order for the ZoneRanger and Ranger Gateway to proxy requests between the HP OM agents and HP
OM server, the HP OM agents need to be configured to send requests to a ZoneRanger configured port.
Basically, the ZoneRanger will appear to be the HP OM server to the HP OM agents. The ZoneRanger
will then proxy those requests through a Ranger Gateway to the HP OM server in the secure network.
The HP OM server responses will be proxied through the Ranger Gateway and ZoneRanger back to the
HP OM agents.
HP OM Certificates
HP OM agents communicate with an HP OM server using the HTTPS protocol. This requires that SSL
certificates be used between the HP OM server and HP OM agents. However, ZoneRanger breaks the
HTTPS connection between the HP OM agent and the HP OM server. Thus, in order to have successful
communications, the ZoneRanger must be configured with the proper SSL certificate and private key in
order to connect with the HP OM agent.
The HP OM server may also be configured to require client authentication with the HP OM agents. In
this case, the SSL certificate and private key will also be used to authenticate to the HP OM server.
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