When you install HP 3par System Reporter, there is no authentication needed to change the policies. This means that anyone accessing your System Reporter website could change the values. Obviously, you don’t want that. In this post we will secure the settings with a username/password. To enable the password protected access, 2 things are needed: a .htpasswd file somewhere on your System Reporter server (preferably outside of your htdocs...

Most of you will install HP 3Par System Reporter on Windows Server 2008R2. The version of System Reporter (at the moment of writing this is 2.9MU1) comes with Apache 2.2 (32-bit). As you probably know, this is not the most safe nor performant version. Don’t worry, you can install System Reporter also with the 64-bit version of Apache 2.4.2 by using the following procedure: Obvious: prepare a Windows Server 2008R2 OS with all patches...