HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

9 Upgrading from HP Systems Insight Manager 4.x or later
This chapter provides the steps to upgrade HP SIM 4.x to HP SIM 5.x
NOTE: The "\" at the end of each command line indicates that the rest of the command is on the next
line.
NOTE: HP SIM does not support upgrading to an Oracle database. Oracle is supported on a fresh
installation only.
Upgrading from HP SIM 4.x or later
1. Verify that your system meets the minimum requirements.
2. Install the latest required and recommended HP-UX 11i patches. See http://www.hp.com/products1/
unix/java/patches/index.html for details.
Note: 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, try shutting 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
HP 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 is required and will be automatically selected for installation.
For additional information, see http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/java2/outofbox/index.html.
The kernel parameter values it adjusts are listed in the following table.
Java Out-of-Box Settings
Kernel parameter valuesJava Out-of-Box settings
3000max_thread_proc
2063835136maxdsiz
2048maxfiles
2048maxfiles_lim
512maxusers (HP-UX 11i v1 only)
6000ncallout (HP-UX 11i v1 only)
4097nfile
6000nkthread
2048nproc
2048tcp_conn_request_max
Additionally, HP SIM will adjust the following kernel parameters:
Kernel parameter valuesJava Out-of-Box settings
30000nfile
2048semmns
1024semmni
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