HP ProLiant DL380p Integrating HP Insight Management WBEM Providers with HP Sy - Page 3

- Cooling and Power page has two main improvements. This page is now capable of showing empty fan slots. Previously, this page only showed installed fans. Additionally, significant detail has been added to the redundancy set information. - Memory and Processor page information has been reorganized. You can now easily access more detail while the new page format allows you to see all information in one location. - A UID page provides an SMH interface that lets you turn the UID light on and off.  A Smart Array link has been added to the Storage Box. The link provides an SMH interface for turning the UID light on and off on a drive. Also, the storage pages use a frame design where you can easily obtain storage system details.  The Integrated Management log (Logs tab > Integrated Management Log) now includes sorting capability. Previously a static page, this log now lets you sort by any column.  The Server Configurable Properties page (Tasks tab > Server Configuration) allows you to set the listed writable properties. These properties are also configurable by group from HP SIM. Additionally, the Threshold Information link presents information differently - you can now set all individual values at once.  The Select SMH Data Source box (Settings tab > Select SMH Data Source box > Select link) now includes data source options. Using the Select SMH Data Source box mechanism, you can choose WMI or SNMP as the data source. Security Increased security is one of the primary reasons to switch from SNMP-based server management to server management based on WBEM Providers. Insight Providers for Windows uses Windows-based authentication for local and remote access to server management data. Access control is in the form of standard Windows account level access restrictions. An administrator account has sufficient rights and security group memberships to access the Insight Providers' management information for both local and remote access. For a standard user account, WMI namespace security and Distributed COM User group membership may affect security when accessing WMI. WMI namespace security settings govern access to WMI information. Windows user accounts can be allowed or denied specific privileges only through WMI namespace. For more information about namespace security, refer to "Access to WMI Namespaces" at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa822575.aspx or the "HP Insight Management WBEM Providers User Guide" at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02219794/c02219794.pdf?ju mpid=reg_R1002_USEN. Only users who belong to the Distributed COM (DCOM) User group can remotely connect to WMI and access management information. Administrators are in this group by default. Non-administrator users must be added to the Distributed COM Users group for remote WMI connectivity. For more information, refer to "Connecting to WMI on a Remote Computer" at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/enus/library/aa389290.aspx. Insight Provider deployment and SNMP agent removal The Insight Providers are independent of SNMP agents. If you currently depend on SNMP to provide your management infrastructure, you can remove the agents at the same time you install Insight Providers for Windows. Or, because there are no interdependencies, you can remove the SNMP agents later. 3