HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux
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 Linux 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 SIM on the CMS for the first time”
(page 25).
2. Install and configure the required Insight Management Agents on the systems that will be
managed by the CMS. For more information, see “Setting up managed systems” (page 34).
3. Configure HP SIM for your environment. For more information, see “Configuring HP SIM”
(page 37).
Upgrade overview
If HP SIM has previously been installed on your CMS proceed to the upgrade instructions in
“Upgrading from HP SIM” (page 41).
System requirements
This section identifies the hardware and software requirements and recommendations for HP SIM.
These requirements are broken into sections by 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: Linux Central Management Server
Operating systems
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 x86
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 AMD64/EM64T
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 x86
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 AMD64/EM64T
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 x86
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 AMD64/EM64T
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x86
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 AMD64/EM64T
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 x86
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 AMD64/EM64T
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 x86
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 AMD64/EM64T
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 x86
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 AMD64/EM64T
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 x86
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