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

Managed system OS / Data Collection Method

HP-UX

UP

Integrity Windows, (physical server or VM), from an HP-UX CMS

UP

Windows physical server or Hyper-V VM from a Windows CMS Agentless

Physical x86 or Integrity Linux system

Agentless

Required access credentials

WBEM credentials must be configured (or discovered) in HP SIM for these systems

WBEM credentials must be configured (or discovered) in HP SIM for these systems

WBEM credentials must be configured (or discovered) in HP SIM for these systems

SSH credentials or certificate-based SSH authentication must be configured (or discovered) in HP-SIM for these systems

Required access level

Non-root or root

Does not require Administrator level access

WBEM login must be a member of the Administrators group on these systems

Non-root or root credentials, or certificate-based authentication may be used

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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