HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

1 Installation overview and requirements
This chapter provides an overview of the HP Systems Insight Manager installation process, and it
identifies the system requirements for a HP-UX CMS, a managed system, and a network client.
First time install process overview
Perform these steps for a first time install of HP Systems Insight Manager on your CMS:
1. Install and configure the CMS. For details, see “Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the
CMS for the first time” (page 22).
2. Install and configure the required management software on the systems that will be managed
by the CMS. For more information, see “Setting up managed systems” (page 27).
3. Configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment. For more information, see chapter
“Configuring Systems Insight Manager” (page 30).
Upgrade overview
If Systems Insight Manager is installed on your CMS, see the upgrade instructions in "“Upgrading
HP SIM” (page 36) for details.
System requirements
This section identifies the hardware and software requirements and recommendations for HP Insight
Control. These requirements are broken into sections for the CMS, managed system, and network
client.
Support for Adobe Flash player
HP recommends that the version of Adobe Flash player must atleast be 10.3.183.11. This is a
patched version of Adobe Flash player 10. Use the link http://www.adobe.com/support/security/
bulletins/apsb11-28.html to download the latest patched version.
Part 1: HP-UX Central Management Server
Pre-requisite
• Install the current version of smbclient before installing HP-UX SIM. The current version of
smbclient is required to successfully integrate HP-UX with the Microsoft Windows environment.
This avoids the possible risk of CRA task failure error. To install the current version of smbclient
for HP-UX, see https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?
productNumber=B8725AA
Operating system
• HP-UX 11i v2 Update 2 (11.23 PI-PA)
• HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31 IA/PA)
• Integrity Virtual Machine running guest with HP-UX 11i v2
• Integrity Virtual Machine running guest with HP-UX 11i v3
NOTE: The Systems Insight Manager CMS cannot run on an HPVM host.
NOTE: The required patches must be installed for each of these operating systems. For more
information, see “HP-UX patches” (page 7).
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