Installing and upgrading HP Insight Management 7.3 on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3

information about installing an update. See How to run the Incremental Update Installer in Appendix C for details about

running the incremental installer.

If you also installed Insight Management Software Patches on the primary system, install the same on the secondary

system at this point in the installation procedure. See Appendix D: Applying Insight Management Software Patches for more

details.

Adding the Insight Management cluster resources

To complete the installation of HP Insight Management to the cluster, several cluster resources must be created using

Failover Cluster Manager.

1. If the secondary system is powered on, shut it down and wait for it to complete.

2. If the primary system is powered off, power it on and wait for it to complete.

3. Log in to Windows on the primary system as SQL/IM Administrator.

4. Power on the secondary system.

5. Open Failover Cluster Manager on the primary system in the left pane click Nodes, confirm that the Status for both

nodes is

Online, and that the primary system owns all cluster resources.

6. The cluster group for Systems Insight Manager and Insight Management, including its client access point and disk

resource, were created before Insight Management was installed. Clicking Roles in Failover Cluster Manager should

show a screen similar to Figure 8.

Figure 8: The clustered services and applications

Using Failover Cluster Manager to create resources for the Insight Management

clustered service

This section describes the process for creating the Systems Insight Manager cluster resources. The actual creation of the

resources is done in the sections following this one.

The same process is repeated to create each needed cluster resource. Each Systems Insight Manager resource will be

created from a service that appears in the

Services Console (Start  Administrative Tools  Services). Each resource will

have one or more

dependencies. A dependency is another Systems Insight Manager resource that must be online before the

subject resource may be started.

The New Resource Wizard is used to create a resource. After that, the dependencies are added as properties of the created

resource. Any additional steps are indicated per resource in the sections following this one.

To run the New Resource Wizard to create a Generic Service:

In the center pane of Failover Cluster Manager, right-click the Systems Insight Manager Group, mouse-over Add resource

and click

Generic Service. The New Resource Wizard launches.

1. On the Select Service screen: select from the list the service to use for the resource. The name of the new resource is

the name of the service as displayed in the list.

2. The Confirmation screen displays the following properties from the Services Console:

• The service Display name and (Service name)

• The Startup Parameters of the service

3. After the wizard configures the resource, a Summary screen shows the results. Click Finish.