HP Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux HP Part Number: 418811-007 Published: October 2010 Edition: 6.
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Table of Contents 1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................6 First time install process overview..............................................................................................................6 Upgrade overview...................................................................................................................................6 System requirements...............................................................................
How to use your software technical support and update service.............................................................43 Warranty information.......................................................................................................................43 Typographic conventions........................................................................................................................43 Related documents..................................................................................
List of Tables 1-1 1-2 1-3 1-4 1-5 1-6 1-7 1-8 1-9 1-10 5-1 Supported HP c-Class platforms.........................................................................................................14 Supported HP e-Class platforms........................................................................................................14 Supported HP p-Class platforms........................................................................................................14 Supported c-Class Servers..............
1 Installation overview and requirements This chapter provides an overview of the Systems Insight Manager installation process, and it identifies the system requirements for a Linux CMS, a managed system, and a network client. First time install process overview Perform these steps for a first time install of Systems Insight Manager on your CMS: 1. Install and configure the CMS. For details, see Chapter 2 “Installing Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time”. 2.
must meet Systems Insight Manager 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 a Systems Insight Manager 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.
NOTE: On Linux, look for the entry 127.0.0.1 localhost, the local system IP address, and the system name in the /etc/hosts file. If they are not present, add the entries manually.
Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations Operating systems • Windows managed systems • Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard • Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise • Windows Server 2008 Data Center • Windows Server 2008 R2 Small Business Server • Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Server • Windows Server 2008 R2 Itanium • Windows Server 2008 Standard, SP2 • Windows Server 2008 Standard (x64), SP2 • Windows Server 2008 Standard (x64) • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, SP2 • Windows Server
• • 10 • Windows 2003 Data Center (IA64), SP1 • Windows 2003 Data Center, SP2 • Windows 2003 Data Center (x64), SP2 • Windows 2003 Data Center (IA64), SP2 • Windows 2003 Web Edition SP1 • Windows 2003 Web Edition SP2 • Windows 2003 Small Business SP1 • Windows 2003 Small Business SP2 • Windows 7 (Professional/Enterprise) • Windows 7 (Professional/Enterprise) (x64) • Windows Vista (Business/Enterprise) SP2 • Windows Vista (Business/Enterprise) (x64) SP2 • Windows Vista (Business/E
• • • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AMD64/EM64T, Update 6 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 IPF, SP1 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 x86, SP1 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 AMD64/EM64T, SP1 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 IPF • SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 x86 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 AMD64/EM64T • SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 IPF, SP3 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 x86, SP3 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 AMD64/EM64T, SP3 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 IPF, SP2 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 x86, SP2 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 1
• • SUN managed systems • Solaris 9 Sparc • Solaris 10 Sparc • Solaris 10 Intel Platform • Solaris 9 Intel Platform • Solaris 8 Intel Platform IBM managed systems • AIX 6.1 • AIX 5.
Required web browsers • For Windows: • Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 • Mozilla Firefox 3.5 (3.5.09.00) • Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13 NOTE: • For HP-UX: • • For optimum performance, the minimum resolution for the browser must be 1024 x 768. Mozilla Firefox 3.5 (3.5.09.00) For Linux: • Mozilla Firefox 3.5 (3.5.09.00) • Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13 NOTE: For all Internet Explorer browsers, you must have the SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.
Hardware support Table 1-1 Supported HP c-Class platforms Product Models Minimum Software Management firmware version BladeSystem c3000 2.00 or later BladeSystem c3000 Tower Model 2.10 or later BladeSystem c7000 1.30 or later Table 1-2 Supported HP e-Class platforms Product Models Minimum Software Management firmware version ProLiant BL 10e Enclosure NA Table 1-3 Supported HP p-Class platforms Product Models Minimum Software Management firmware version ProLiant p-Class 1U Power Enclosure 2.
Product Models Minimum Integrated Minimum BIOS – System Lights-Out (iLO) / iLO 2 / ROM required firmware version required Operating Systems Supported1 Minimum ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) required Windows ProLiant BL495c G6 A14 05/07/2009 1.78 Windows 2003, 8.25 Windows 2008, RHEL 5 Update 3, RHEL 4 (minimum Update 8), VMWare ESX 4.0.0 or later, XenSource, RedHat XEN, and SLES XEN ProLiant BL495c G5 8/29/2008 1.61 Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Linux, and VMWare ESX Server 8.
1 2 For specific version of the operating systems, browse the ProLiant support matrix at http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/index.html HP ProLiant BL e-Class Integrated Administrator Table 1-7 Supported p-Class Servers Product Models Minimum Integrated Minimum BIOS – System Lights-Out (iLO) / iLO 2 / ROM required firmware version required Operating Systems Supported1 Minimum ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) required Windows Integrity BL60p 01.70 H.03.21 HP-UX NA ProLiant BL20p 2004.05.01 1.
Product Models Minimum Software Management firmware version HP 3Gb SAS BL-c Pass-Thru Module NA HP 4Gb Fiber Channel Pass-Thru Module for c-Class BladeSystem NA HP 4Gb Virtual Connect Fiber Channel Module for c-Class BladeSystem 1.22 HP GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch for HP 2.0.4 HP GbE2c Layer 2/3 Ethernet Blade Switch 2.0.4 HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Module for BladeSystem 2.
2 Installing Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time Preparing the system Perform step 1 for a first time install of Systems Insight Manager on your CMS. 1. Install and configure the CMS. 2. Install and configure the required management software on the systems that will be managed by the CMS. For details, see Chapter 3 “Setting up managed systems”. 3. Configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment. For more information, see Chapter 4 “Configuring Systems Insight Manager”.
6. Verify that the following required software dependencies are available on your system, and install any that are not already installed. a. Verify that SSH is installed by executing the following command: rpm -qa | grep ssh If SSH is not installed, the previous command does not return any results. Install SSH from your Linux operating system CD before continuing with the Systems Insight Manager installation. b.
Manually installing Systems Insight Manager 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_C.05.*.bin --noexec --target mxserver NOTE: 2. For information on setting permissions, refer to Step 5. 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.
/etc/init.d/hpsmdb start • For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 or later: a. View the status by executing the following command: /etc/init.d/postgresql status b. Configure hpsmdb to run during startup by executing the following command: chkconfig hpsmdb 345 c. If the status is unused in any version of Red Hat Linux or SUSE Linux, start the daemon by executing the following command: • For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 or later: /etc/init.
–h Hostname Full DNS name or IP address of the Oracle server. -n Port number Port number to be used to connect to the oracle instance. Default port is 1521. –d Database name Name of database instance. –u Username Database user name. –p Password Database password for the corresponding user name. –j Driver file location Full path to thin driver .jar file. This is not required if the .jar file is already in the class path for Systems Insight Manager and JBoss.
NOTE: These steps might vary slightly, depending on your version of Linux. Refer to your Linux provider for details if these file paths and file names do not exist on your system. a. Verify that SNMP is installed by executing the following command: rpm -qa | grep snmp If SNMP is not installed, the previous command does not return a components list. Refer to your Linux provider for information on installing SNMP. b.
e. Edit the snmpd.conf file using any text editor. For Red Hat Linux, run the following command for opening this file in the vi editor: vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 and SUSE 11, run the following command for opening this file in the vi editor: vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf i. Remove the comment symbol (#) from the trapsink line, and add the IP address of the CMS.
Systems Insight Manager 6.2 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/ hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information.
3 Setting up managed systems Perform step 2 to install and configure the required management software. 1. Install and configure the CMS. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Installing Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time”. 2. Install and configure the required Insight Management Agents on the systems that will be managed by the CMS. 3. Configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment. For more information, see Chapter 4 “Configuring Systems Insight Manager”.
For example, if two CIMOMs exist on the same host, you must configure them to use different ports to communicate with the CMS. Configuring Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems After verifying that each storage system’s SMI-S provider is installed and configured, configure Systems Insight Manager to discover the storage systems by performing the following steps: 1.
4 Configuring Systems Insight Manager Perform step 3 to configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment. 1. Install and configure the CMS. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Installing Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time”. 2. Install and configure the required Insight Management Agents on the systems that will be managed by the CMS. For more information, see Chapter 3 “Setting up managed systems”. 3. Configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment.
NOTE: This page only appears if you selected to manage a Windows system. • Privilege Elevation Enable privilege elevation if, on HP-UX, Linux, and ESX managed systems, you are required to sign in as a non-root user and then request privilege elevation to run root-level tools. • E-mail Enter the e-mail settings that the CMS will use to send e-mail notifications. You can set up Automatic Event Handling tasks that prompt Systems Insight Manager to send e-mails when the CMS receives a specific event.
5. Configure email settings Email settings enables users to receive email notification of certain events. To configure email settings, select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→Email Settings. 6. Set up automatic event handling. Automatic event handling defines the action that Systems Insight Manager performs when an event is received. To setup automatic event handling, select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→New Task. 7. Configure and execute discovery.
NOTE: If the HP Server Management Drivers and Agents daemon is not installed, omit this step and step F. c. Stop the SNMP daemon: /etc/init.d/snmpd stop d. Edit the snmpd.conf file using any text editor. For Red Hat Linux, run the following command for opening this file in the vi editor: vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, run the following command for opening this file in the vi editor: vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf i.
5 Upgrading from Systems Insight Manager This chapter provides the steps to upgrade Systems Insight Manager 5.2 and later. Before beginning the Systems Insight Manager upgrade, verify that your user name and password to access to the database are valid.
c. d. Select the checkbox, save the changes, and then start the service. To start hpsmdb by using the command line, execute the following command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/hpsmdb start Or /etc/init.d/hpsmdb start • For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 or later: a. View the status by executing the following command: /etc/init.d/postgresql status b. Configure hpsmdb to run during startup by executing the following command: chkconfig hpsmdb 345 c.
7. Complete the upgrade by restarting the Systems Insight Manager daemons using mxstop and mxstart. Systems Insight Manager is now installed and initialized on the CMS. To browse to Systems Insight Manager, start the Systems Insight Manager graphical user interface (GUI) using Firefox, or Internet Explorer at http://:280/. 8. After upgrading to Systems Insight Manager 5.
6 Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager from a Linux system CAUTION: Removing Systems Insight Manager permanently deletes the information in the database unless you back it up before removing the software. Procedure 6-1 Removing Systems Insight Manager 1. Stop the Systems Insight Manager daemons: /opt/mx/bin/mxstop 2.
7 Configuration options Several configurable parameters in Systems Insight Manager that are not available from the GUI. These parameters can only be configured by editing a configuration file on the CMS. NOTE: All Systems Insight Manager parameters have been set to predefined values that are appropriate for most situations. These parameters should only be changed if you are experiencing issues with the default values. There are two main default locations where configuration files are stored.
session alive. The user is timed-out either by inactivity, closing the browser, or navigating to another site. The default time-out period is 20 minutes. Implementation • To configure the time-out policy, edit the globalsettings.props file. You can switch between these modes or change the time-out period. The default time-out policy is the monitor policy. The monitor policy is enabled when: EnableSessionKeepAlive=true To enable the active time-out policy, change this value to false.
A roll-over will not occur until a task running is completed. However, after one hour of exceeding the maximum file size, if the task is not finished, then the audit log file will roll over to another file. Procedure 7-1 Configuring the HP Systems Insight Manager Audit Log file location 1. 2. Create a file named path.properties under /etc/opt/mx/config. Add the following entry in the path.properties file: LOG=/var/opt/mx/logs . NOTE: 3. /var/opt/mx/logs is listed here as an example.
NOTE: The limit of 10 task results applies to scheduled tasks with the "job-log" flag enabled in the tool definition. Scheduled tasks for the tools with the "job-log" flag disabled have a limit of 1. This value is not configurable. • By default, the last task results for a scheduled task is kept indefinitely. Procedure 7-2 Keeping more than one job 1. 2. Stop HP Systems Insight Manager. Edit globalsettings.
8 Troubleshooting Browser issues GUI issues Installation issues Sign in issues GUI issues 8.1 Browser issues 8.8.1.1 Accessing some of the menu items on a Linux CMS causes the page to go blank. Solution: If using Firefox and this happens, click back on the displayed page, and the menus will be refreshed. 8.2 GUI issues 8.8.2.1 8.8.2.2 Parts of the GUI do not show up on my Linux system, such as the devices in the system list, or the System and Events Lists area on the left.
Procedure 8-1 Manually starting the PostgreSQL service 1. Navigate to the /etc/init.d directory and execute the following command: ./postgresql stop 2. 3. Log in as user postgres (su postgres). Execute the following command: postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data The postmaster and PostgreSQL start. 4. Run mxinitconfig -a. Initial configuration completes successfully and service starts. 8.4 Sign in issues 8.8.4.
first-party site. When navigating to a managed system through Systems Insight Manager, the system is considered a third-party site. • Customize the handling of cookies by clicking Advanced and enabling Override automatic cookie handling. Then select the appropriate radio buttons for first-party and third-party cookies to Accept or Prompt. If you select Prompt, the browser prompts you on how to handle a cookie each time a cookie is received.
9 Support and other resources Information to collect before contacting HP Be sure to have the following information available before you contact HP: • Software product name • Hardware product model number • Operating system type and version • Applicable error message • Third-party hardware or software • Technical support registration number (if applicable) How to contact HP Use the following methods to contact HP technical support: • In the United States, see the Customer Service / Contact HP U
Command user input computer output Enter term variable value Command name or qualified command phrase. Commands and other text that you type. Text displayed by the computer. The name of a keyboard key. Note that Return and Enter both refer to the same key. A sequence such as Ctrl+A indicates that you must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while pressing the A key. Defined use of an important word or phrase. The name of an environment variable, for example PATH or errno.
Glossary A administrative rights user A user who is authorized for the All Tools toolbox on all systems, including the Central Management Server. This type of user has been given special privileges to administer the HP Systems Insight Manager software. administrator A user who manages users, resource pools, and self-service requests through HP Insight Orchestration console. agent A program that regularly gathers information or performs some other service without the user's immediate presence.
certificate An electronic document that contains a subject's public key and identifying information about the subject. The certificate is signed by a certificate authority (CA) to bind the key and subject identification together. See also certificate authority. certificate authority (CA) A trusted third-party organization or company that issues digital certificates used to create digital signatures and public-private key pairs.
critical status A state generated when HP Systems Insight Manager can no longer communicate with a managed system. custom tools Custom tools are tools that can be created by the user to run on the Central Management Server or on target systems. For example: • Remote tool A tool that runs on selected target systems. It might copy files to the target systems or run specific X-Window applications on the target systems. You can schedule this tool. • CMS tool A tool that runs on the CMS.
enclosure A physical container for a set of server blades. It consists of a backplane that routes power and communication signals and additional hardware for cabling and thermal issues. It also hosts the CPU or server power supplies. event Information sent to certain users that something in the managed environment has changed. Events are generated from SNMP traps. HP Systems Insight Manager receives a trap when an important event occurs. Events are defined as: • Warning. • Informational. information.
HP Insight Control power management An integrated power monitoring and management application that provides centralized control of server power consumption and thermal output at the datacenter level. It extends the capacity of datacenters by enabling the user to control the amount of power and cooling required for ProLiant servers. Built on ProLiant Power Regulator Technology, it extends new server energy instrumentation levers into HP Systems Insight Manager for greater Unified Infrastructure Management.
managed systems Any system managed by HP Systems Insight Manager, such as servers, desktops, storage systems, and Remote Insight Boards (RIBs). management agent A daemon or process running on a managed system. It receives and executes requests from the Central Management Server on the managed system. management domain A collection of resources called managed systems that have been placed under the control of HP Systems Insight Manager.
O Onboard Administrator The Onboard Administrator is the central point for controlling an entire c-Class enclosure. It offers configuration, power, and administrative control over the rack, and its associated blades (Compute Servers), blade management processors (iLOs), network switches (depending on the models of switches used) and storage components (such as SAN or SATA). The Onboard Administrator is a single management processor, with shared resources to an optional backup twin processor for failover.
HP Insight Remote Support Advanced The HP Insight Remote Support Advanced provides proactive remote monitoring, diagnostics, and troubleshooting to help improve the availability of HP-supported servers and storage devices in your data center. The Insight Remote Support Advanced reduces cost and complexity in support of systems and devices. The Insight Remote Support Advanced securely communicates incident information through your firewall and/or Web proxy to the HP Support Center for reactive support.
Secure Shell (SSH) A program to log in to another system over a network and execute commands on that system. It also enables you to move files from one system to another, and it provides authentication and secure communications over insecure channels. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) A standard protocol layer that lies between HTTP and TCP and provides privacy and message integrity between a client and server.
Single Sign On Permission granted to an authenticated user browsing to HP Systems Insight Manager to browse to any of the managed systems from within HP Systems Insight Manager without re-authenticating to the managed system. HP Systems Insight Manager is the initial point of authentication, and browsing to another managed system must be from within HP Systems Insight Manager. single-system aware (SSA) A run type that does not support multi-system operations.
system health status system identification system information This is aggregate status all of the status sources (which can be SNMP, WBEM, and HTTP) that are supported on a target system, with the most critical status being displayed. The following are the different system health statuses that can be displayed: • Critical HP Systems Insight Manager can no longer communicate with the system. The system was previously discovered but cannot be pinged.
system status panel The section of the GUI on the left of the screen that displays status information and system or event alarms. system type One of 12 supplied types. You can add your own based on one of these types. For example, use Server type to create MyServer type. It is still a server and is reported on in the same way, but it has your designation.
U uncleared event status Events that have a Critical, Major, Minor, Normal, or Informational severity and have not been cleared or deleted from the database. Events can be cleared without being deleted from the database by using the Clear events menu option. • Critical. • Major. A failure is impending. • Minor. A warning condition exists that can escalate into a more serious problem. • Normal. • Informational. A failure has occurred, and immediate attention is required.
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) An API in the Windows operating system that enables you to manage and control systems in a network. workspace The section of the GUI where tools appear. X X client An application or tool that appears on an X server. X clients can also be called X applications. X server A local application that accepts X client requests and acts on them.
Index A active time-out, 36 audit log configure, 37 C Central Management Server Linux system preparation, 18 central management server installing Systems Insight Manager on Linux, 19 requirements, 6 configuration audit log, 37 data collection CPU utilization, 36 lifetimes for Task Result entries, 38 managed system, 26 time-out policy, 36 configuration options, 36 configuring First Time Wizard, 28 managed systems, 28 Systems Insight Manager, 28 CPU utilization, 36 customization options, 36 D data collectio
U Uninstall Central Management Server removing Systems Insight Manager on Linux, 35 upgrading Systems Insight Manager overview, 32 process, 32 60 Index
