HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1 Installation and Configuration Guide for MS Windows

Contents
1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................5
First time install process overview................................................................................................5
Upgrade overview....................................................................................................................5
Pre-requisites............................................................................................................................5
System requirements..................................................................................................................5
Support for Adobe Flash player.............................................................................................5
Part 1: Windows Central Management Server..........................................................................5
Systems Insight Manager Windows Virtual Machine support.....................................................8
Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations.....................................................9
Managed storage system....................................................................................................16
SSH requirements...............................................................................................................16
Foreign language support...................................................................................................17
HP CloudSystem Integrated Manager requirements.....................................................................17
System support..................................................................................................................17
Hardware support..............................................................................................................17
2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time.................24
Preparing the system...............................................................................................................24
Typical install.........................................................................................................................30
Next steps.............................................................................................................................33
3 Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager.....................................................37
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................37
Operating-system-specific collections.....................................................................................38
Operating-system-specific reports.........................................................................................39
Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu......................................................39
4 Setting up and configuring managed systems...............................................41
Overview..............................................................................................................................41
Setting up managed systems using the HP Systems Insight Manager interface.................................41
Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................42
Installing SMI-S providers....................................................................................................42
Verifying SSL.....................................................................................................................42
Configuring SMI-S providers................................................................................................42
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems........................................43
Managing host systems with iLO4 using Agentless Management feature....................................43
Installing the HP Agentless Management Service...............................................................43
Configuring HP Agentless Management ..........................................................................43
5 Installing HP Insight Remote Support...........................................................45
Device and access requirements...............................................................................................45
HP Insight Remote Support installation process............................................................................45
Using the Hosting Device Setup Wizard................................................................................47
HP Insight Remote Support and HP Systems Insight Manager Synchronization.................................47
6 Upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager .....................................................49
Typical upgrade.....................................................................................................................53
Custom upgrade.....................................................................................................................54
Silent upgrade.......................................................................................................................55
Data migration.......................................................................................................................57
Exporting data from a CMS................................................................................................57
Importing data from a CMS................................................................................................58
Post migration steps............................................................................................................58
Next steps........................................................................................................................60
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