Automatic Access to System Management Homepage on VMWare ESX Servers

[Dirk Holzwarth]

Hello,
I'am very new in the linux business and so, may question could be very easy to answer for a linux professional. We have installed the System Management Agnets on our VMWare ESX 2.5.2 servers (where the console is based on Linux Red Hat 7.2). The good answer is, that we get all the informations of the hardware in the SIM. Unfortunately, when we will connect to the System Management Homepage (via "from HP Foundation Agent"), we are asked for a user and password. This works at present just with the root user. In Windows we changed the files CPQHMMD.ACL, cpqhmmd.ini and cpqhmmdx.ini and give the system the right certificate - than it works.
How works that in Linux ?

Thanks in advance

Dirk

[Patrick Lampert_1]

I think you need to set up an ssh key. This is taken from the Insight Manager Users Guide Chapter 8 under Set Up Linux Managed Systems...

To set up a Linux managed system:
1. Install and configure SSH.
a. Verify that SSH is installed on the managed system:
ps -ef | grep ssh
If it isn't installed, refer to your Linux provider for information on installing SSH.
b. On the CMS, copy the SSH generated public key from the CMS to the managed system
and place it in the authorized keys file of the execute-as user (root or administrator).
i. Launch the Manage SSH Keys dialog box from the CMS command prompt:
mxagentconfig -g
ii. Enter the managed system's Hostname.
iii. Enter root or administrator for the Username and the associated Password.
iv. Click Connect.