Anonymous Access to over 500 servers

[Dwayne Skinner]

I have used Configure or Repair Agents to push a cert to all of my servers. This has allowed us to connect to the SMH without having to logging in. The problem is that some of our systems still require a login. I can fix this by going to the SMH and putting a checkmark in the Anonymous Access field.

Is there a way to set this on all of my 500 + servers without having to login to the SMH on each one of them?

I checked Configure and Repair Agents but I didn't see anything that looked like it would do that.

[Rich Purvis]

Well - first you need to decide if that is *really* want you want. If you enable "Anonymous Access" anyone with a web browser will be able to access the SMH without authentication - this is the information on AA in the SMH Help:
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Anonymous Access. Is disabled by default. Enabling Anonymous Access enables a user to access the HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) without logging in. If Anonymous is selected, any user, local or remote, has access limited to unsecured pages without being challenged for a username and password.

Caution: HP does not recommend the use of anonymous access.

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With that being said, if you really want to enable any feature on SMH you can look at using the "Replicate Agent Settings" feature of HPSIM. It requires that you setup one system the way you want then it will replicate those settings to a group of servers.

Good Luck,

-Rich

[Dwayne Skinner]

I agree that Replicate Agents Settings is a better idea than allowing Anonymous Access.

I also realize that I didn't describe the problem correctly.

I can click on the HS column and get to the SMH without logging into the page. The Ops department gets a login.

I'm trying to make it to where everyone in the Ops department can get "read" access to the SMH so they can determine the severity of an alert. It works on some systems but not others.

I've checked the SMH Security settings on two servers (one that requires the login another that doesn't) and they are identical.