HP XP7 PA Software Installation Guide

2 Understanding the HP XP7 Performance Advisor
installation prerequisites
This chapter describes the prerequisites to install the HP XP7 Performance Advisor software and
the host agents, and explains the installation checklist. For more information, see “HP XP7
Performance Advisor and host agents installation checklist” (page 19). To upgrade an existing
version of HP XP7 Performance Advisor, see “HP XP7 Performance Advisor and host agents upgrade
checklist” (page 100).
This chapter addresses the following topics:
• “Performing checks using the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Installation Assistant” (page 12)
• “Installation checklist for HP XP7 Performance Advisor” (page 18)
• “Initial HP XP7 Performance Advisor setup prerequisites” (page 21)
• “Management station prerequisites” (page 26)
• “HP XP7 Performance Advisor host agent prerequisites” (page 35)
Performing checks using the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Installation
Assistant
The HP XP7 Installation Assistant is a smart utility designed to perform a few basic checks before
installing or upgrading the HP XP7 Performance Advisor v6.1, after installing or upgrading, and
after uninstalling the HP XP7 Performance Advisor v6.1 on a management station.
NOTE:
• The HP XP7 Installation Assistant utility is available only with HP XP7 Performance Advisor
v5.5.1, v6.0and v6.1.
• Run the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Installation Assistant on the system on which the HP XP7
Performance Advisor Management Station will be installed.
• Do not run the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Installation Assistant while running the installer.
• Copy the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Installation Assistant to the management station from
the DVD before running, else the log file will not get generated.
• To run PA Installation Assistant, your system requires .NET framework 2.0 to be installed on
your system.
Double-click the PA Installation Assistant.exe file available on the DVD #2. The HP
XP7 Installation Assistant GUI opens. The HP XP7 Installation Assistant has five tabs: Pre-Install,
Post-Install, Pre-Upgrade, Post-Upgrade, and Post-Uninstall tabs. Click on the Start button to start
the respective checks. All the checks done by the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Installation Assistant
are logged in the PA_INSTALL_ASSISTANT_LOG file. This file will be available in the same
location as the PA Installation Assistant.exe file. After the next check, the log entries
are archived into the log file having a name similar to LOG_8-31-2012 12-20-45 PM where
8–31–2012 indicates the date and 12–20–45 PM indicates the timestamp.
This utility performs the basic verification in the following scenarios:
• Pre Installation, before a fresh installation of HP XP7 Performance Advisor
• Post Installation, after the installation of HP XP7 Performance Advisor
• Pre Upgrade, before upgrading HP XP7 Performance Advisor
• Post Upgrade, after upgrading HP XP7 Performance Advisor
• Post Uninstallation, after uninstalling HP XP7 Performance Advisor
12 Understanding the HP XP7 Performance Advisor installation prerequisites