HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with Update 1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux HP Part Number: 418811-005 Published: April 2009 Edition: 5.3.1

NOTE: Many Linux distributions automatically install security layers such as a firewall and/or

Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) that can interfere with the operation of HP SIM. Configurations in the

support matrix are tested without these options enabled.

NOTE: HP SIM can run on a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) provided the following requirements are met. The

VM must be hosted on an ESX 3.0.1 or later server and the VM configuration must meet HP SIM hardware

requirements and the CPU and Memory resources allocated to this VM must be always available to this VM

(by reserving CPU and Memory resources).

NOTE: Installing an HP SIM CMS on Linux Itanium Processor Family (IPF) is not supported. If you see the

following error message, it is because you are attempting to manually install on an unsupported IPF system:

• error: %pre(hpsim-C.05.02.00.00-1.i386) sciptlet failed, exit status 255

• error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping hpsim-C.05.02.00.00-1

Hardware

• Any HP IA-32 AMD64 or EM64T system with the following configuration:

Minimum: 1.5-GHz processor and 1 GB RAM•

• Recommended: 2.4-GHz processor and 2 GB RAM

• Any HP system with Oracle 9i installed minimum 4 GB RAM

• Free disk space:

2 MB for CMS (/)•

• 400 MB for the CMS and DTF agent (/opt)

• 500 MB minimum recommended for data (/var/opt)

• Swap space:

• 3 GB minimum total swap space for Itanium-based systems

Software

• General:

OpenSSH version 1.0 or later•

• ProLiant Support Pack for Linux 7.00 or later

• (Optional) Oracle 9i release 2

• Oracle 10g version 10.2.0.1 or later

NOTE: Oracle supports 5,000 systems and 50,000 events.

• HP SIM private version of PostgresSQL (hpsmdb)

NOTE: hpsmdb supports 500 systems and 5,000 events.

• For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9:

• MIT Kerbros krb5-1.6-18.2

• Browser software:

Firefox 2.0.0.20•

• Firefox 3.0.4

Networking

• Static or dynamic host name resolution

16 Installation overview and requirements