HP Insight Control for Linux 7.0 Installation Guide
Contents
1 Product overview........................................................................................6
1.1 Product description..............................................................................................................6
1.2 Insight Control for Linux tools and features..............................................................................6
1.3 Licensing..........................................................................................................................10
2 Installation and configuration checklist.........................................................11
3 Preparing for the Insight Control for Linux installation.....................................12
3.1 Reviewing the release notes before you begin.......................................................................12
3.2 Special considerations for running the CMS in a Xen or KVM virtual machine guest..................12
3.3 Verifying installation requirements.......................................................................................13
3.4 Preparing a server or a Xen or KVM virtual guest to become the CMS.....................................14
3.4.1 CMS installation requirements.....................................................................................14
3.4.1.1 Verify that the Linux OS version is supported...........................................................14
3.4.1.2 Verify that required OS RPMs are installed.............................................................15
3.4.1.3 Disable Secure Linux on RHEL OS.........................................................................20
3.4.1.4 Verify Systems Insight Manager version.................................................................20
3.4.1.5 Install the supported version of the PSP..................................................................20
3.4.1.6 Unset proxy environment variables .......................................................................21
3.4.2 CMS configuration requirements.................................................................................21
3.4.2.1 Configure a network interface..............................................................................21
3.4.2.2 Configure SNMP...............................................................................................21
3.4.2.3 Modify the CMS entry in the /etc/hosts file..........................................................22
3.4.2.4 Configure a static IP address...............................................................................22
3.4.2.5 Open inbound and outbound ports on the CMS....................................................22
3.4.2.6 Open ports for NFS on the CMS (optional)...........................................................23
3.4.2.7 Ensure sufficient disk space in the repository.........................................................25
3.4.2.8 Ensure at least 12 GB of disk space is available for the /hptc_cluster file system........26
3.4.2.9 Configure serial console logging (optional)...........................................................26
3.4.2.10 Decide on the type of database: the Systems Insight Manager database or an existing
Oracle database...........................................................................................................26
3.5 Next steps.......................................................................................................................26
4 Configuring the network............................................................................27
4.1 Networking overview.........................................................................................................27
4.1.1 Methods for booting a managed system........................................................................27
4.1.2 Networking requirements............................................................................................27
4.1.3 Networking best practices...........................................................................................28
4.2 Supported network configurations.......................................................................................28
4.2.1 Two-tier network topology...........................................................................................29
4.2.2 Flat single network topology.......................................................................................29
4.3 Configuring a DHCP server................................................................................................30
4.3.1 DHCP minimum requirements......................................................................................30
4.3.2 DHCP best practices..................................................................................................31
4.3.2.1 Network modifications required by SLES operating systems......................................33
4.3.2.2 Translating IP Addresses to host names.................................................................33
4.4 Other network services......................................................................................................34
4.4.1 ATFTP/ TFTP configuration..........................................................................................34
4.4.2 rsync configuration....................................................................................................35
4.4.3 SNMP configuration..................................................................................................35
4.4.4 NTP configuration.....................................................................................................36
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