HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft 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.....................................................9
Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations.....................................................9
Managed storage system....................................................................................................17
SSH requirements...............................................................................................................17
Foreign language support...................................................................................................18
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.................26
Preparing the system...............................................................................................................26
Typical install.........................................................................................................................32
Next steps.............................................................................................................................35
3 Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager.....................................................41
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................41
Operating-system-specific collections.....................................................................................42
Operating-system-specific reports.........................................................................................43
Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu......................................................43
4 Setting up and configuring managed systems...............................................45
Overview..............................................................................................................................45
Setting up managed systems using the HP Systems Insight Manager interface.................................45
Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................46
Installing SMI-S providers....................................................................................................46
Verifying SSL.....................................................................................................................46
Configuring SMI-S providers................................................................................................46
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems........................................47
Managing host systems with iLO4 using Agentless Management feature....................................47
Installing the HP Agentless Management Service...............................................................47
Configuring HP Agentless Management ..........................................................................47
5 Installing HP Insight Remote Support...........................................................49
Device and access requirements...............................................................................................49
HP Insight Remote Support installation process............................................................................49
Using the Hosting Device Setup Wizard................................................................................51
HP Insight Remote Support and HP Systems Insight Manager Synchronization.................................51
6 Upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager .....................................................53
Typical upgrade.....................................................................................................................57
Custom upgrade.....................................................................................................................58
Silent upgrade.......................................................................................................................59
Data migration.......................................................................................................................61
Exporting data from a CMS................................................................................................61
Importing data from a CMS................................................................................................62
Post migration steps............................................................................................................62
Next steps........................................................................................................................64
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