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Contents

Introduction.................................................................................................................................. 5

Overview ................................................................................................................................................. 5

Windows Management Instrumentation........................................................................................................ 5

Installing the HP Insight Providers.................................................................................................... 6

Insight Providers Smart Components ............................................................................................................ 6

Installing the Insight Providers with the PSP ................................................................................................... 6

Installing the Insight Providers as part of a SmartStart Assisted Path installation.................................................. 7

Installing the Insight Providers using HP SIM.................................................................................................. 8

Installing the Insight Providers Smart Component ........................................................................................... 9

Security requirements for the Insight Providers ............................................................................................. 10

SNMP agent compatibility........................................................................................................................ 11

Uninstalling SNMP-Based HP Insight Management Agents............................................................... 12

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 12

Uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents on a single local server..............................................................12

Uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents on a single remote server...........................................................12

Uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents on multiple remote servers using HP SIM ......................................13

Scripting commands for uninstalling HP Insight Management Agents.............................................................. 14

Scripting commands for HP Insight Management Agents 6.30 through 7.60 ......................................... 14

Scripting commands for HP Insight Management Agents 7.70 or later.................................................. 15

Using the SMH with the Insight Providers....................................................................................... 16

Introduction to SMH................................................................................................................................. 16

Change Data Source ............................................................................................................................... 16

Auto Refresh........................................................................................................................................... 16

Threshold settings.................................................................................................................................... 16

Data collection........................................................................................................................................ 17

Security ..................................................................................................................................... 18

Security concerns .................................................................................................................................... 18

Implementation ....................................................................................................................................... 18

Best practices.......................................................................................................................................... 18

Configuring Insight Provider Security for a User Account using HP SIM Configure and Repair Agents................. 19

Configuring Insight Provider Security using the Windows Command Line........................................................ 20

Windows Server 2008 Firewall configuration................................................................................ 22

Firewall configuration introduction............................................................................................................. 22

Firewall configuration .............................................................................................................................. 22

Insight Providers architecture........................................................................................................ 24

Architecture overview .............................................................................................................................. 24

Data model ............................................................................................................................................ 25

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition examples........................................................................................ 28

Insight Providers usage ............................................................................................................................ 31

Additional documentation ........................................................................................................................ 32

Scripting.................................................................................................................................... 33