HP SIM V5.1 User Guide (356920-009, January 2007)

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5. Select the patches, and click add to selected patch list at the bottom of the page to add dependent

patches.

6. Click download selected, and follow the directions on the screen. HP recommends the

gzip

package

format.

To install patches:

1. Create a /var/tmp/patches directory, and copy the downloaded patches into that directory.

2. Execute:

gunzip patch_file

tar -xvf patch_file

3. Load the patches into /var/tmp/patches/depot:

./create_depot_hp-ux_11

4. Install the patches:

swinstall -x autoreboot=true -s /var/tmp/patches/depot \*

Note: Only the applicable patch file sets are loaded. Continue with the installation after you reboot.

Linux Central Management Server

This section contains the requirements for the Linux operating system that is used for the CMS.

NetworkingSoftwareHardwareOperating system

• Static or dynamic host name

resolution

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.

• SNMP

• OpenSSH version 1.0 or

later

• ProLiant Support Pack for

Linux 7.00 or later

• (Optional) Oracle 9i release

• Oracle 10g

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0

AS/ES update 7:

▲ PostgreSQL 7.4.1

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0

AS/ES update 3:

▲ PostgreSQL 7.4.7

For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

▲ PostgreSQL 7.4.2-36.3

For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

10:

▲ PostgreSQL 8.1.4

Any HP IA-32 system with the

following configuration:

• Minimum: 1.5-GHz

processor and 768 MB RAM

• Recommended: 2.4-GHz

processor and 1 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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

AS and ES U7 for x86

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

AS and ES U3 for x86

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

for AMD64 and EM64T

(manual installation only)

• SUSE Linux Server 9 with

Service Pack 3 for x86

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

9 for AMD64 and Intel

EM64T (manual installation

only)

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

NOTE: PostgreSQL 8.0.x is not supported on HP SIM 5.0 on Japanese installations.

NOTE: Installing an HP SIM CMS on Linux 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.05.01.00.00-1.i386) sciptlet failed, exit status 255

error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping hpsim-C.05.01.00.00-1