HP Insight Management 7.3 Preinstallation worksheet

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Contents

1 Preparing for an installation or upgrade........................................................4

Verifying basic information before you begin................................................................................4

Preparing the Central Management Server (CMS).........................................................................5

Preparing servers you want to manage with Insight Management....................................................8

2 Gathering data for an installation or upgrade..............................................10

Collect HP Insight Management installation directory information..................................................11

Collect service account credentials configuration information........................................................11

Collect database information...................................................................................................12

Collect automatic sign-in credentials information.........................................................................12

Collect Proxy information.........................................................................................................13

Collect product title information................................................................................................13

Collect WMI Mapper Port information.......................................................................................13

Collect HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager information..........................................................14

Collect HP Matrix Operating Environment visualization, CapAd and gWLM information..................14

Collect Matrix infrastructure orchestration information..................................................................14

Collect Matrix infrastructure orchestration deployment server information........................................16

Collect information for Version Control Repository Manager ........................................................17

3 Gathering data to finish the HP Insight Management installation.....................18

Defining discovery tasks..........................................................................................................18

Setting up managed systems....................................................................................................18

Add authorized users to Systems Insight Manager (optional).........................................................19

Configuring alerts for email and automatic paging on the CMS (optional).....................................19

Setting up automatic event handling on the CMS (optional)..........................................................19

4 Gathering data for optional post-installation configuration tasks......................20

Configuring VMware vCenter server settings (optional)................................................................20

Setting up a virtual connect domain group (optional)...................................................................20

Installing and configuring the ProLiant Support Pack for server deployment (optional).......................21

Configuring Matrix infrastructure orchestration features (optional)..................................................21

Performing server migration (optional).......................................................................................21

5 Support and other resources......................................................................23

Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................23

How to contact HP..................................................................................................................23

Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components......................................23

Subscription service............................................................................................................23

Registering for software technical support and update service.......................................................23

How to use your software technical support and update service...............................................24

HP authorized resellers............................................................................................................24

New and changed information in this edition.............................................................................24

HP Insight Management Advisor..........................................................................................24

HP Insight Management Installer..........................................................................................25

Related information.................................................................................................................25

Documents........................................................................................................................25

Websites..........................................................................................................................25

Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................25

6 Documentation feedback...........................................................................27

Index.........................................................................................................28

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