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Virtualization Manager, click the button in the upper right of the screen. Select the “Logical
servers” help topic from the help navigation links on the left, then select the “Authorizations
and configuration” link at the top of this page.
Configuring data collection credentials
Systems that are to be managed using Capacity Advisor or Virtualization Manager must be
configured to allow data collection from the CMS. In general, this data collection can be enabled
either through the Utilization Provider (UP) installed on the managed system, or through agentless
data collection. For a description of the two methods, see the section “Comparison of agentless
and UP data collection” in the HP Insight Capacity Advisor 6.2 User Guide.
Authentication is required to enable data collection using either UP or agentless data collection.
The required credentials are summarized in Table 3-1 (page 22). You can verify or modify the
WBEM or SSH credentials for a system that has been discovered in HP SIM by selecting
Options→Security→Credentials→System Credentials... from the HP SIM menu.
Table 3-1 Data collection credentials requirements
Required access levelRequired access credentials
Managed system OS / Data Collection
Method
Non-root or rootWBEM credentials must be
configured (or discovered) in HP SIM
for these systems
HP-UX
UP
Does not require Administrator level
access
WBEM credentials must be
configured (or discovered) in HP SIM
for these systems
Integrity Windows, (physical server
or VM), from an HP-UX CMS
UP
WBEM login must be a member of the
Administrators group on these systems
WBEM credentials must be
configured (or discovered) in HP SIM
for these systems
Windows physical server or Hyper-V
VM from a Windows CMS
Agentless
Non-root or root credentials, or
certificate-based authentication may
be used
SSH credentials or certificate-based
SSH authentication must be
configured (or discovered) in HP-SIM
for these systems
Physical x86 or Integrity Linux
system
Agentless
NOTE: On a Windows CMS, any VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V hosts must be properly
registered in HP Insight Control virtual machine management (VMM) to allow data collection
from these hosts and their virtual machines. For information about registering the hosts in VMM,
see HP Insight Control 6.2 Virtual Machine Management User Guide.
Removing unneeded agent software
If you have upgraded from a previous installation of Insight Dynamics or the VSE Management
Software, there may be agents installed on some of your managed systems that are no longer
needed. This will occur on managed systems that previously used the Utilization Provider for
data collection and are now configured for agentless data collection. The following types of
systems are affected:
• Integrity Linux or x86 Linux managed systems. In releases prior to version 6.0, these systems
needed the Utilization Provider for data collection. In the current release, these systems will
be configured to use agentless data collection. The Utilization Provider is no longer supported
by Insight Dynamics on Linux managed systems.
• Microsoft Windows managed systems, but only if you are using a CMS that is also running
Microsoft Windows (agentless data collection from Windows systems is not supported on
an HP-UX CMS).
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