HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software 7.6.0-00 Installation and Configuration Guide

6. Add host names to the hosts file:
1. Open the /etc/hosts file.
2. Confirm that the local host name and agent host name are present. If your host is running
on Linux, enter the name of the local host in the line before the localhost entry.
3. Restart the Device Manager agent services.
Related topics
• Prerequisites for agent installation, page 47
• Agent installation prerequisites, page 51
• Device Manager agent post-installation tasks, page 58
Device Manager agent post-installation tasks
After the Device Manager agent installation completes, additional tasks may be required depending
on the previous version of the agent that was installed.
These additional tasks are described in the following topics:
• “Modifying Device Manager agent properties” on page 58
• “Resetting the agent service execution user on Windows” on page 59
• “Registering firewall exceptions (Windows)” on page 59
Modifying Device Manager agent properties
After installing the Device Manager agent, you may have to modify some of its properties.
1. Stop the agent service.
2. Modify the properties for the appropriate environment (see the categories that follow).
3. Start the agent service.
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Set the following properties in the agent server.properties file.
• server.http.socket.agentAddress: Set the property to the IP address used to connect the
Device Manager agent to the Device Manager server.
• server.http.socket.bindAddress: If the agent host has multiple NICs, specify the IP address
of one or more NIC, as needed, to receive requests.
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
Specify the installed VxVM version in the veritas.volume.manager.version property of the
programproductinfo.properties file. Use the format x.x to specify a version.
UNIX environments, when the Device Manager agent is updated from version 05-00 to 5.9
If host programs do not require a different Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version from 1.4, then JRE
1.4 (included in versions 05-00 through 5.9) is used.
After the update, if a program is installed with a valid JRE, specify that program installation path in
the server.agent.JRE.location property of the server.properties file.
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