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SSA and MSA custom tools on Linux

Sean Carolan — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:07:21 GMT

We used the mxagentconfig to set up a user account on a linux server with ssh access. The authorized_keys2 file was created successfully, but we're not really clear on the benefits of giving HP SIM ssh access to our Linux machines.

Are there any really useful tools out there for Linux boxen? Of the built-in tools I didn't see anything that really looked worthwhile.

Just curious how the rest of you are using SSH with your HP SIM environments.

Re: SSA and MSA custom tools on Linux

fred Passeron — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:33:18 GMT

Hi

The following WP gives insights on SSH in HP SIM :
http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/misc/hpsim-helpfiles/hpsim_5_ssh.pdf

I usually use ssh to run CLI based tools on multiple linux targets...

These tools are simple cli like useradd or uptime. Nothing prevents you from creating your own relevant ones. The CLI that are by default integrated in HP SIM are merely examples...It could also be scripts...

hope it helps

fred

Re: SSA and MSA custom tools on Linux

Sean Carolan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:03:33 GMT

We already have a robust suite of SSH command line tools for all our servers, so I will probably not be installing this. It is a nice idea however, if you don't already have a system in place for running commands on all your machines.

Re: SSA and MSA custom tools on Linux

Sean Carolan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:03:51 GMT

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