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

5 Upgrading HP SIM

This chapter provides the steps to upgrade HP SIM 6.3 and later. Before beginning the HP SIM

upgrade, verify that your user name and password to access to the database are valid. When you

perform and upgrade, HP SIM checks for a previous installation of HP SIM, stops HP SIM and all

related services and daemons, overwrites or copies files to the appropriate locations on the CMS,

and then restarts HP SIM and all related services.

NOTE: If you are upgrading from HP SIM 6.x with Virtual Server Environment 5.x, you will also

need to upgrade to Virtual Server Environment 6.x after upgrading to HP SIM 7.x.

Procedure 8 Upgrading HP SIM

1. Verify that your system meets the minimum requirements.

NOTE: HP SIM does not support upgrading to an Oracle database. Oracle is supported on

a fresh installation only.

2. Install the latest required and recommended HP-UX 11i patches. For more information, see

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/hpuxjava-patchinfo/index.html.

If you are running the 2002 release of HP-UX 11.11 (11i v1), apply the required and

recommend patches to save time during the upgrade process. If you do not apply the patches,

you could experience extended upgrade times of 2 hours before you can log in to the system

after an upgrade. If initconfig.log shows 100% completion and you cannot browse into

HP SIM on port 280, then stop and start the HP SIM service by running mxstop and mxstart

respectively. If the browser is not displaying the pages properly, shut down all the browsers

to clear the cache.

3. Download the software, or locate a copy of the software on a depot server.

To download the software, see http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim, and select Download under

HP management software on the upper-left of the screen. The HP SIM Download Page appears.

Under Systems Insight Manager and related components, select HP SIM-HP-UX, and select

Download latest version of HP SIM-HP-UX for a full product install.

When installing HP SIM, Java Out-of-Box and SSH are required, and automatically selected

for installation. For additional information about Java Out-of-Box, see http://www.hp.com/

products1/unix/java/java2/outofbox/index.html. The Java Out-of-Box settings and kernel

parameter values required for HP SIM:

Table 15 HP SIM kernel configuration parameters

Kernel parameter valuesJava Out-of-Box settings

20dbc_max_pct

4096semmns

2048semmni

When you install HP SIM, the following software dependencies are required: SysMgmtDB,

JAVAOOB, and SSH. If you would like HP SIM to manage your CMS you must install WBEM

if it is not already installed. If you downloaded your software from the Web, these dependency

packages are included in the depot file. The installation procedure will be described using

this depot.

4. If you have an Oracle database, after upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager do the following:

a. Stop HP Systems Insight Manager.