Using HP Sim to monitor remote (client) equipment

[Tim Van Engeland]

Hello,

I'm thinking about using HP SIM to monitor remote equipment of our clients.

There are a few things to think about :
- The equipment will be in other domains
- It will not be able to use VPN on every location.
Can HP SIM transmit it's data over HTTPS and then configure IP-access only for the clients?

Any ideas, suggestions, etc... are welcome :-)

Regards,
Tim Van Engeland

[fred Passeron]

Hi

1/Can HP SIM transmit it's data over HTTPS?
Yes That is one the main feature in terms of security for HP SIM.
2/configure IP-access only for the clients?
When installing the agents on a managed device (a server), the package comes with the SMH : the system management homepage : A web page where all HW info are gathered and displayed. The access to this page can be limited by user account, ip binding, etc...
see here :
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/agents/index.html

You may also want to look at the following doc, it describes all the security aspects you need to be aware of :-)

http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01652179/c01652179.pdf

and this one as well to understand which port to open when dealing with Firewalls :

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02112422/c02112422.pdf

hope it helps

fred