Installing And Configuring Hp Insight Management Agents; Concepts And Terms To Understand; Installing Hp Insight Management Agent Packages - HP BL860c Installation Manual

2 Installing and Configuring HP Insight Management Agents

Follow the directions in this section to install, configure, and update HP Insight Management
Agents.

Concepts and Terms to Understand

• SNMP operations - HP Insight Management Agents are based on the SNMP protocol, which
includes the GET, SET, and TRAP operations defined as follows:
— GET operations retrieve information from the system on which you installed HP Insight
Management Agents.
— SET operations change values on the system installed with HP Insight Management
Agents.
— TRAP operations are initiated from the system installed with HP insight Management
Agents to note that a problem or issue needing attention has occurred.
In conjunction with the HP Insight Management Agents, HP SIM automate SNMP operations
in an intuitive interface that does not require you have a detailed understanding of SNMP.
Although you can use HP manageability tools and HP Insight Management Agents without
detailed comprehension of SNMP, you find the background information listed helpful in
understanding the operations performed by your HP manageability software, particularly
in regard to the relevance of community strings. For detailed information about SNMP, see
the Net-SNMP web site:
http://www.net-snmp.net
• Community string - During agent configuration, you are prompted to set values for
community strings, which function somewhat like passwords. A community string must
be known to both the system running the HP Insight Management Agents and the system
serving as the CMS to grant access. A read-only community string allows the user who
knows its value to retrieve SNMP data. A read/write community string allows the user who
knows its value to both retrieve and modify SNMP data.
IMPORTANT:
read/write access or you might disable read/write access.
• Trap destination - A trap destination is a machine to which you want a server's status
indicators sent for further analysis. For example, the HP SIM CMS could be the trap
destination for a server installed with HP Insight Management Agents. You are prompted
to specify a trap destination during agent configuration. Each trap destination has a
corresponding trap community string.

Installing HP Insight Management Agent Packages

The HP Insight Management Agent packages are installed on your system by using the software
installer located on the HP Support Pack media of the HP Insight Foundation Suite for Integrity
with Linux. Specific instructions for installing from the HP Support Pack media are found in
Chapter 5, "Installing and Using the HP Support Pack Media", in the HP Insight Foundation Suite
for Integrity with Linux User's Guide located in the /docs directory on the HP Support Pack media
of the HP Insight Foundation Suite for Integrity with Linux and at the HP Technical
Documentation web site:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01861377/c01861377.pdf
Ensure that you have the latest HP Insight Management Agent packages as described in
"Obtaining the HP Insight Management Agent Package" (page
dependencies and installs any additional required software when installing these packages.
Do not use the same community string for read-only access as you do for
10). The installer handles any
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