HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows

2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the
first time
Preparing the system
These steps are for a clean installation of HP Systems Insight Manager on your Windows system.
If a previous version of HP Systems Insight Manager is installed on your system and you want to
upgrade your data, see Upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager.
This procedure verifies that your system meets the minimum requirements and prepares your system
for installation.
1. Install and configure the CMS. The procedure to complete this step is in this chapter.
2. Configure HP Systems Insight Manager for your environment. See “Configuring HP Systems
Insight Manager” (page 32).
3. Install and configure the required Insight Management Agents on the systems that are to be
managed by the CMS. This step is covered in the first section of “Setting up and configuring
managed systems” (page 36).
4. Configure the remaining protocols for the managed systems. See “Setting up and configuring
managed systems” (page 36).
NOTE: Installing the CMS on Windows uses the user desktop locale to determine the CMS locale.
For example, if you install the CMS on a German Windows system and the user desktop locale
happens to be English, then the CMS installed becomes an English CMS.
The language of mxlog.txt (a log file) currently depends on the CMS locale. If the installer user
desktop locale is German, mxlog.txt is logged in German, even though the CMS is installed
on an English Windows system and the browser locale is also English.
This happens because the Log On As property of the Systems Insight Manager service is configured
as the install user name, instead of Local System, which specifies system environment. Running the
service with the credentials of the user that installed the application is necessary for the service to
have the necessary credentials for database access and other CMS settings.
If you want the logs to be in a different language (German or English), you have three options:
• Stop Systems Insight Manager service. Change the default locale of the user account specified
in the Log On As property of the Systems Insight Manager service (the user that performed
the install) to the desired language, and restart the service.
• Stop Systems Insight Manager service. Change the Log On As user for the Systems Insight
Manager service to the local administrator account, and be sure its locale is set to the desired
language. Restart the service.
• If you do not want to change the default locale of either of the previous accounts to the desired
language for the logs, create a new administrator-level account with the desired default locale.
Then uninstall Systems Insight Manager and reinstall Systems Insight Manager specifying the
new administrator-level account.
Procedure 1 Verify and prepare system
1. Verify your system meets the minimum requirements. For details, see “System requirements”
(page 5).
2. Install the required Windows and Microsoft SQL Server Service Packs.
NOTE: If you are using a remote SQL database, leave the default as Master to insure that
all necessary databases are created with correct permissions.
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