HP Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

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”.

This procedure verifies that your system meets the minimum requirements and prepares your system for

Systems Insight Manager installation.

To verify and prepare your system, perform the following procedure:

Procedure 2-1 Prepare the system

1. Verify your system meets the minimum requirements. For details, see “System requirements”.

2. Disable the firewall and/or Security-Enhanced Linux.

Many Linux distributions automatically install security layers such as a firewall and/or Security-Enhanced

Linux (SELinux) that can interfere with the operation of Systems Insight Manager. Configurations in the

support matrix are tested without these options enabled.

NOTE: If you chose to install Systems Insight Manager without disabling the SELinux environment,

then must be opened for smooth operation. For enabling ports under the SELinux firewall, see Firewall

Configuration.

3. If you plan to use an Oracle database, refer to your Oracle provider for instructions.

NOTE: The Oracle database must be created with Unicode character set of AL32UTF8 and national

character set of AL16UTF16 before installing Systems Insight Manager. The NLS Length must be set to

BYTE. You must also specify the thin client .jar file location. Systems Insight Manager requires Oracle

database and Transparent Network Substrate (TNS) listener services to be up and running when system

is restarted. Oracle by itself does not start the Oracle database and TNS listener automatically. An

Oracle database administrator (DBA) must set these services to be restarted when the server is reset.

For details on how to automatically start these services, see the Oracle documentation at

http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/html/A96167_01/post-inst.htm#sthref548. Access to this link

requires registration. The Oracle DBA who manages the Oracle installation must perform this task.

Install Oracle on the local system before installing Systems Insight Manager. Create a database user

name with DBA privileges, or if you plan on using Oracle as the remote database, you must have the

database and user name with DBA privilege to configure Systems Insight Manager. To configure HP

Systems Insight Manager to use a newly created Oracle database, see After installing Systems Insight

Manager.

4. Download the Systems Insight Manager software. To download the software, see

http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim and on the upper-left of the page under HP management software, click

Download. The Systems Insight Manager Download Page appears. Under HP Systems Insight

Manager and related components, select HP SIM-Linux and Download latest version of HP

SIM-Linux for a full product install.

5. In the directory where you downloaded or copied the files, change user permissions to add execute

permissions to the bin file:

chmod +x *.bin

chmod +x HPSIM*.bin

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