SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP30271 PART NUMBER: N/A FILE NAME: SP30271.EXE TITLE: HP Systems Insight Manager 4.2 SP2 VERSION: 1.0 LANGUAGE: English CATEGORY: Software Solutions DIVISIONS: Systems PRODUCTS AFFECTED: HP ProLiant and ProSignia Servers OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2003 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: N/A PREREQUISITES: HP Systems Insight Manager 4.2 (or 4.2 with SP1) EFFECTIVE DATE: April 15, 2005 ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 4.x SUPERSEDES: None DESCRIPTION: HP Systems Insight Manager 4.2 SP2 This softpaq updates HP Systems Insight Manager 4.2 (or "4.2 with SP1") to "4.2 with SP2". This following fixes are included to update "4.2 with SP1" to "4.2 with SP2": - Addressed the problem of ProLiant Essentials products and SIM tools not working if SSH (Secure Shell) is not configured properly on the CMS. In some cases, it was difficult to get SSH properly configured on the CMS for all accounts that needed to use SSH. A mechanism has been added for the CMS to run local tools even if SSH is not configured properly. By default, this new mechanism will be used for all tools that use SSH locally on the CMS to target the CMS and that execute with the "Administrator" account. Other accounts can also be added by adding the account name to the "mx_dtf_ssh_bypass_user" property in \config\globalsettings.props. Account names should be separated by a comma, with no spaces. Domain accounts require 2 backslashes between the domain name and the user name, such as "domain\\user". This feature can be disabled entirely by setting "mx_dtf_enable_ssh_bypass=false" in the same properties file. The following ProLiant Essentials and tools can take advantage of this: - HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack - HP ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack - Install OpenSSH - Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install - Configure or Repair Agents - Custom Commands, if the login user is added to the property. - Enhanced the OpenSSH installer to work with domain users on Windows 2003. Also enhanced to correct user home directory references for SSH. The OpenSSH service runs with service credentials on all versions of Windows now, instead of just on Windows 2003. - The OpenSSH service will run as the user who installs HP SIM. This user account must be an administrative account and have specific user rights to allow OpenSSH to run correctly. The following user rights are required, and will be automatically added to this account by the OpenSSH installer if needed: - Log on as a service - Create a token object - Replace a process level token These may be controlled by the Local Security Policy administrative tool. A domain policy may control these settings, in which case these settings may need to set for a domain user. - Fixed a problem with folder status if the 1.5 Java Plug-in is in use. - Fixed a problem with email or pager messages sometimes being sent for old events. - Fixed a problem with HP Systems Insight Manager service components, mxdomainmgr and mxagent, continuously restarting in some cases where the "run as" credentials for the HP Systems Insight Manager service were manually changed to another account after installation. - Fixed a debug script pop-up that sometimes occurred when selecting "Tools", "System Information", "System Management Homepage" and clicking links in the Insight Agents. All "4.2 SP1" fixes are also included: - Fixed problems with HP BladeSystem blade/enclosure/rack associations. In some cases extra racks were appearing based on the correct rack name but with portions of the serial number appended (for example, "ENCL--EA-JK-LJ--".) Most of the enclosures and blades would be associated with the improperly named rack. There was also the potential to have racks named "unknown". Note that after this patch, any unknown or incorrect enclosures and racks can be deleted. - Fixed problem with email or pager messages sometimes being sent for old events while an Automatic Discovery was running. Note, this applies to any automatic event handling task that used system type as one of the filters. - Fixed problems with device-specific WBEM credentials not being used if they were provided. - Fixed problem with ignoring the "Use global defaults" setting under "Ping (ICMP) Settings" on the "System Protocol Settings" page. - Fixed problem with device showing same IP address multiple times. - Fixed a problem with importing a certificate into HP System Insight Manager that specified the Domain Component field in the subject field of the certificate response. - Fixed problem with scaling of "File System Size" and "File System in Use" to scale with 1024*1024 instead of 1000*1000 to show megabytes. - Modified the "Tools/System Management Homepage" menu item to qualify on presence of the System Management Homepage on the target system, rather than on the operating system of the target system. - Modified the mxnodesecurity executable to disable display of credentials used by "Configure or Repair Agent Settings". - Fixed a SOAP call used for internal application integration. This fix is required to properly support Rapid Deployment Pack version 2.0. - Fixed a problem with the status of "My Favorites" folders not always reflecting the proper status when multiple users were monitoring the same folders. HOW TO USE: 1. Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and change to that directory. The file that is downloaded is a self-extracting executable with a filename based on the SoftPaq Number above. 2. From that drive and directory, execute the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions to unpack the files. 3. After the files have been created, you may delete the self-extracting file downloaded in step 1. 4. To install the patch, run INSTALL. Note that it will stop and restart the Systems Insight Manager service and other services that use Systems Insight Manager during this process. The entire update should take less than 10 minutes. 5. After a successful installation, you may delete the files unpacked in step 2 if you wish. 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