HP XP7 PA Software Installation Guide

Figure 4 HP XP7 Installation Assistant — Post Install tab
• PA Services Status check: Verifies whether the following Performance Advisor services are
installed and are running, else displays an error message.
◦ HP XP7 Performance Advisor Database
◦ HP XP7 Performance Advisor Database Listener
◦ HP XP7 Performance Advisor Monitor
◦ HP XP7 Performance Advisor Security
◦ HP XP7 Performance Advisor Tomcat
• PA environment variables check: Verifies whether PADB_HOME and HPSS_HOME environment
variables are created and do not contain trailing slash, else displays an error message.
• Hard disk space check: Verifies whether 64 GB free space is available in the PADB location
and also verifies whether 8 GB free space is available in the Performance Advisor install
location, else displays a warning message.
• Physical memory check: Verifies whether 1 GB of physical memory is available on the system,
else displays a warning message.
• PA database check: Verifies the connection to Oracle database. If connection is not possible,
the tool displays an error message.
During this check, the tool uses the PADB_HOME variable to connect to Oracle database to
ensure that the value of the variable is correct. If the Oracle database is not initialized, the
tool recommends to run oracledb helper tool.
• PA database tables check: Verifies whether the PAv6.1 tables are created.
NOTE: HP XP7 Installation Assistant does not check for all the PA tables but some tables to
ensure that database installation/upgrade is successful.
• JAVA heap size check: Verifies if the Java minimum heap size is less than 128 MB and the
maximum heap size is less than 256 MB, else displays an error message.
14 Understanding the HP XP7 Performance Advisor installation prerequisites