SMH, Insight Manager and IIS

[Mario N.]

In a lab environment I installed SMH and Insight Mamager on two different Windows Server 2003 servers for testing purposes.
I noticed that in both cases the web pages (:2381 and 50000) were imediately available for local users.
However, to allow users access such pages from browsers installd on different clients I had to configure IIS on both servers.
Is it correct?
How can I protect, in a production environment, web pages from unauthorized sccess?
Should I just make confidence on user authentication?
Regards
Mario

[Blazhev_1]

Hi Mario,

there is no need to install IIS to open SMH or SIM from remote client.

Simply install ProLiant support pack, configure SNMP(not needed for you test purposes) and from a remote computer enter:

httpS:\\:2381 (HTTPS, not http).
Ensure ports 2381 and 443 are not blocked from a firewall.

In SMH under Settings - Security there are several options - most users preffer certificates, further there is SSL encryption.

more info :

http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00293364/c00293364.pdf