HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) custom commands and command line tools require that Secure Shell (SSH) be installed and configured on each of the managed systems to work properly. Refer to Secure Shell (SSH) in HP Systems Insight Manager white paper at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more detailed information on SSH and the features in HP SIM that use SSH.
The OpenSSH install is run from the central management server (CMS) and installs the OpenSSH service onto target Windows systems and then runs the mxagentconfig command to complete the configuration.
To install OpenSSH through the OpenSSH Install option:
Select Deploy Deploy Drivers, Firmware and Agents Install OpenSSH. The Install OpenSSH page appears.
Select the target systems. Refer to Managing with Tasks - Creating a Task for more information on selecting target systems. Click [Next]. From the Enter credentials for an administrator account on the target system(s): section: In the User name field, enter the Windows administrator user name. In the Password field, enter the administrator password for the Windows user name entered in the previous step. In the Password (Verify) field, re-enter the Windows administrator password exactly as it was entered in the Password field. In the Domain field, enter the Windows domain.
Note: Leave Domain field blank if the administrator account on the target systems is a local account.
Click [Schedule] to schedule the install, or click [Run Now] to run the installation immediately. Refer to Managing with Tasks - Scheduling a Task for more information on scheduling the installation. If you clicked [Run Now], the Tasks Results page appears. Refer to Scheduling a Task - Viewing Task Results for more information on the Task Results page.
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