HP Insight Control for Linux 6.2 User Guide

To ensure that the CMS can resolve the host name that is appended to all syslog events that
originate from managed systems, follow these steps:
1. Determine the managed system's name by running the hostname command on the system:
# /bin/hostname
If the node does not report a host name, set one or configure DHCP to assign one. DHCP
configuration information is located in the HP Insight Control for Linux Installation Guide.
2. On the CMS, run the mxgethostname command with the host name obtained in the previous
step. For this example, the host name is venus:
# mxgethostname -n venus
If the CMS recognizes the host name, command output is similar to the following:
Host name: venus.example.com
DNS Name: venus.example.com
If the mxgethostname command does not return any results, do the following:
• Verify that the managed system has a valid IP address.
• Verify that the IP address is registered in a DNS server.
• Add the IP address and host name to the /etc/hosts file on the CMS.
• Verify that network is configured correctly and the managed system can access it.
8.3.3 Installing additional components of the PSP
This task is optional. Insight Control for Linux does not automatically install the complete set of
PSP and ESX agents. If you install VMware ESX virtual machine OS, you must run
Configure→Configure or Repair Agents if you want to install the ESX agents.
If you used Insight Control for Linux to install a Linux OS on one or more managed systems,
Insight Control for Linux installed the PSP components listed in Table 13-1 (page 143) onto the
managed systems. These components are required to enable HP SIM management capabilities.
If you want to install additional components of the PSP on each managed system now, follow
the procedure in Chapter 13 (page 143).
8.3.4 Configuring agents and HP SIM SSH keys
Follow this procedure to configure agents and configure HP SIM SSH keys on target managed
systems:
1. Select the following menu item from the HP Insight Control user interface
Configure→Configure or Repair Agents
If you have not specified a target system, select and verify the target system.
NOTE: If the managed system is a DL100 Series server that is running a supported operating
system, but that OS was not installed with Insight Control for Linux, first select
Deploy→Deploy Drivers, Firmware and Agents→IC-Linux→Configure SNMP on DL1xx
servers and run this task before continuing with the remaining steps. For more information,
see Section 23.9 (page 211)
2. Optionally select Install Linux PSP or ESX agents.
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