HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Administering Systems and Events \| Configuring SSH Bypass Properties

Configuring SSH Bypass Properties


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The globalsettings.props has many configurable properties. These setting are used to fine-tune the performance of various settings of HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) to adjust to the running environment of the customer.

SSH Bypass is used to boost performance by bypassing the overhead of setting up SSH connections for specified users when the central management server (CMS) is executing a tool locally on the CMS. This also alleviates potential problems with SSH not being configured properly locally. This applies to tools that run exclusively on the CMS. This feature was introduced with HP SIM 4.2 SP2 – Windows and is also included for HP-UX and Linux with HP SIM 5.0 This feature is enabled by default for the root user on HP-UX and Linux, and for the administrator and the installer account on Windows.

To configure SSH bypass properties in globalsettings.props:

Open the globalsettings.props file located at:
- On Windows. It is typically located at C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\config\globalsettings.props.
- On HP-UX and Linux. It is located at /etc/opt/mx/config/globalsettings.props.
Edit the following properties:
- mx_dtf_ssh_bypass_user . Modify this property to add additional user names for the SSH bypass feature. Separate each with a comma. For Windows domain accounts, two backslashes must exist between the domain name and the user name. For example, mydomain\\myname. You should not add a user name if you do not intend for them to have full administrator privileges on the CMS.
- mx_dtf_enable_ssh_bypass . Set this property to True to bypass use of SSH for most local tools for the users listed in mx_dtf_ssh_bypass_user, or set to False to always use SSH tools that execute locally. The default setting is set to True.