HP Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

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Table of Contents

1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................6

First time install process overview..............................................................................................................6

Upgrade overview...................................................................................................................................6

System requirements................................................................................................................................6

Part 1: Linux Central Management Server..............................................................................................6

Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations...................................................................9

Managed storage system..................................................................................................................13

SSH requirements.............................................................................................................................13

Foreign language support.................................................................................................................13

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager requirements....................................................................................13

System support................................................................................................................................13

Hardware support............................................................................................................................14

2 Installing Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time.....................18

Preparing the system..............................................................................................................................18

Installing and configuring the software.....................................................................................................19

Automatically installing Systems Insight Manager ................................................................................19

Manually installing Systems Insight Manager.......................................................................................20

After installing Systems Insight Manager.............................................................................................21

Next steps............................................................................................................................................24

3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................26

Installing the ProLiant or Integrity Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time..........................................26

Setting up managed storage systems.......................................................................................................26

Installing SMI-S providers.......................................................................................................................26

Verifying SSL........................................................................................................................................26

Configuring SMI-S providers...................................................................................................................26

Configuring Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems................................................................27

4 Configuring Systems Insight Manager.........................................................28

Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard...............................................................28

Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu....................................................................29

Setting up Linux managed systems manually.............................................................................................30

5 Upgrading from Systems Insight Manager....................................................32

Upgrading Systems Insight Manager in Linux............................................................................................32

Installing System Management Homepage and Systems Insight Manager.....................................................34

6 Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager..........................................................35

Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager from a Linux system..........................................................................35

7 Configuration options................................................................................36

CPU utilization during data collection......................................................................................................36

Overview........................................................................................................................................36

Implementation................................................................................................................................36

GUI time-out policy...............................................................................................................................36

Overview........................................................................................................................................36

Implementation................................................................................................................................37

HP Systems Insight Manager audit log configuration..................................................................................37

Overview........................................................................................................................................37

Implementation................................................................................................................................37

Configuring task results..........................................................................................................................38

8 Troubleshooting........................................................................................40

9 Support and other resources......................................................................43

Information to collect before contacting HP...............................................................................................43

How to contact HP................................................................................................................................43

Registering for software technical support and update service.....................................................................43

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