HP Systems Insight Manager 7.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

Contents
1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................5
Overview of first time install process............................................................................................5
Upgrade overview....................................................................................................................5
System requirements..................................................................................................................5
Support for Adobe Flash player.............................................................................................5
Part 1: HP-UX Central Management Server..............................................................................5
HP-UX patches................................................................................................................7
Downloading and installing individual HP-UX patches..........................................................7
Part 2: Requirements and recommendations for managed system................................................8
Managed storage system....................................................................................................17
Foreign language support...................................................................................................17
HP CloudSystem Integrated Manager requirements.....................................................................18
System support..................................................................................................................18
Hardware support..............................................................................................................18
2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time.................25
Preparing the system...............................................................................................................25
Installing and configuring the software......................................................................................26
Tuning HP SIM (Optional) .......................................................................................................29
Next steps.............................................................................................................................29
3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................30
Installing the required software on an HP-UX system....................................................................30
Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................31
Setting up managed systems using the HP SIM interface..............................................................31
Installing SMI-S providers.........................................................................................................31
Verifying SSL..........................................................................................................................32
Configuring SMI-S providers.....................................................................................................32
4 Configuring Systems Insight Manager.........................................................33
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................33
Operating-system-specific collections.....................................................................................34
Operating-system-specific reports.........................................................................................35
Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu..............................................................................35
Configuring HP-UX systems manually.........................................................................................37
5 Upgrading HP SIM...................................................................................39
6 Uninstalling HP SIM..................................................................................41
Uninstalling HP SIM from an HP-UX system.................................................................................41
7 Configuration options................................................................................42
CPU utilization during data collection........................................................................................42
Overview..........................................................................................................................42
Implementation..................................................................................................................42
GUI time-out policy.................................................................................................................42
Overview..........................................................................................................................42
Implementation..................................................................................................................43
Systems Insight Manager audit log configuration........................................................................43
Overview..........................................................................................................................43
Implementation..................................................................................................................44
Configuring task results...........................................................................................................44
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