HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

Contents
1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................5
First time install process overview................................................................................................5
Upgrade overview....................................................................................................................5
System requirements..................................................................................................................5
Support for Adobe Flash player.............................................................................................5
Part 1: Linux Central Management Server................................................................................5
Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations.....................................................8
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 6.0..............................................................16
Managed storage system....................................................................................................17
SSH requirements...............................................................................................................17
Foreign language support...................................................................................................17
HP CloudSystem Integrated Manager requirements.....................................................................17
System support..................................................................................................................17
Hardware support..............................................................................................................18
2 Installing HP SIM on the CMS for the first time..............................................25
Preparing the system...............................................................................................................25
Installing and configuring the software......................................................................................26
Automatically installing HP SIM ..........................................................................................26
Manually installing HP SIM.................................................................................................27
After installing HP SIM........................................................................................................28
Enabling Linux VCRM features........................................................................................32
Next steps.............................................................................................................................33
3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................34
Installing the Proliant or Integrity Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time............................34
Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................34
Installing SMI-S providers.........................................................................................................34
Verifying SSL..........................................................................................................................34
Configuring SMI-S providers.....................................................................................................35
Configuring HP SIM to discover storage systems.........................................................................35
RHEL 6.0 installation instructions...............................................................................................35
4 Configuring HP SIM..................................................................................37
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................37
Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu..............................................................................38
Setting up Linux managed systems manually...............................................................................39
5 Upgrading from HP SIM............................................................................41
Upgrading HP SIM in Linux......................................................................................................41
6 Uninstalling HP SIM..................................................................................44
Uninstalling HP SIM from a Linux system....................................................................................44
7 Configuration options................................................................................45
CPU utilization during data collection........................................................................................45
Overview..........................................................................................................................45
Implementation..................................................................................................................45
GUI time-out policy.................................................................................................................45
Overview..........................................................................................................................45
Implementation..................................................................................................................46
Systems Insight Manager audit log configuration........................................................................46
Overview..........................................................................................................................46
Implementation..................................................................................................................47
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