HP Systems Insight Manager 7.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows

Contents
1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................5
First time install process overview................................................................................................5
Upgrade overview....................................................................................................................5
Pre-requisites............................................................................................................................5
System requirements..................................................................................................................5
Support for Adobe Flash player.............................................................................................5
Part 1: Windows Central Management Server..........................................................................5
Systems Insight Manager Windows Virtual Machine support.....................................................9
Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations...................................................10
Managed storage system....................................................................................................18
SSH requirements...............................................................................................................18
Foreign language support...................................................................................................19
HP CloudSystem Integrated Manager requirements.....................................................................19
System support..................................................................................................................19
Hardware support..............................................................................................................19
HP Insight Remote Support ......................................................................................................26
2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time.................27
Preparing the system...............................................................................................................27
Typical install.........................................................................................................................33
Next steps.............................................................................................................................36
3 Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager.....................................................42
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................42
Operating-system-specific collections.....................................................................................43
Operating-system-specific reports.........................................................................................44
Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu......................................................44
4 Setting up and configuring managed systems...............................................46
Overview..............................................................................................................................46
Setting up managed systems using the HP Systems Insight Manager interface.................................46
Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................47
Installing SMI-S providers....................................................................................................47
Verifying SSL.....................................................................................................................47
Configuring SMI-S providers................................................................................................47
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems........................................48
Managing host systems with iLO4 using Agentless Management feature....................................48
Installing the HP Agentless Management Service...............................................................48
Configuring HP Agentless Management ..........................................................................48
5 Upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager .....................................................50
Typical upgrade.....................................................................................................................54
Custom upgrade.....................................................................................................................55
Silent upgrade.......................................................................................................................56
Data migration.......................................................................................................................58
Exporting data from a CMS................................................................................................58
Importing data from a CMS................................................................................................59
Post migration steps............................................................................................................59
Next steps........................................................................................................................61
6 Uninstalling HP Systems Insight Manager.....................................................62
7 Configuration options................................................................................63
CPU utilization during data collection........................................................................................63
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