HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1 Installation Guide for Linux

NOTE: After installation is complete, log out of the operating system and then log back in to set

all the correct file permissions and system environments.

NOTE: HP Linux VCRM is automatically installed along with HP SIM and HP SMH. The installer

will do the automatic Upgrade of Linux VCRM and HP SMH if lower version is found pre-installed.

NOTE: Installing VCRM on Linux is only supported via HP SIM.

To complete the initial set up of HP SIM refer to “After installing HP SIM” (page 26).

Manually installing HP SIM

1. Extract the .rpm files from the .bin file. Set the permissions to include the right to execute

the .bin file by executing the following command:

chmod u+x HPSIM-Linux_6.x.bin --noexec --target mxserver

NOTE: For information on setting permissions, refer to Step 5.

2. To change the directory to mxserver, execute the following command:

cd mxserver

NOTE: If you are using hpsmd as your database, continue with Step 3 through Step 5. If

you are using Oracle as your database, skip to Step 6.

3. Install the hpsmdb database, using the appropriate .rpm files in the following order.

NOTE: The rpm -i hpsmdb-*.rpm command installs hpsmdb on your system.

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 or later

rpm -ivh hpsmdb-sles11-*.i586.rpm

• 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 or later

rpm -ivh hpsmdb-sles11-*.x86_64.rpm

NOTE: If you are using SUSE 9 with older version of HP SIM, then user has to upgrade SUSE

10 or SUSE 11.

4. Verify that the hpsmdb status reads running.

• For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (all versions):

NOTE: By default, the hpsmdb service is configured to run in INIT 3 and 5 level.

a. Execute the serviceconf command. The Service Configuration window appears.

NOTE: Use the ntsysv command instead of serviceconf if you are running

from a CLI prompt.

b. Scroll down to the hpsmdb entry.

c. Select the checkbox, save the changes, and then start the service.

d. To start hpsmdb by using the command line, execute the following command:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/hpsmdb start

/etc/init.d/hpsmdb start

• For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 or later:

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