HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

HP-UX Central Management Server
This section contains the requirements for the operating system that is used for the HP-UX CMS.
NetworkingSoftwareHardwareOperating system
▲ Properly configured and
working Domain Name
System (DNS)
Any HP system (PA-RISC 2.0 or
Integrity) server with a minimum
of 2 GB RAM (3 GB for HP-UX
11i v3)
•• OpenSSH installedHP-UX 11i v3 (IA/PA)
• •HP-UX 11i v2 Update 2
(IA/PA)
HP WBEM Services for
HP-UX, installed and active
•• (Optional) Oracle 9i release
2
HP-UX 11i
Any HP system with Oracle
installed with a minimum of 4
GB RAM
• Integrity Virtual Machine
running guest with HP-UX
11i v2
• Oracle 10g
Note: Oracle supports
5,000 systems and 50,000
events.
free disk space
Note: The HP SIM CMS cannot
run on an HPVM host.
Note: The required patches must
be installed for each of these
• 20 MB for CMS (/)
• 600 MB for the CMS and
DTF agent (/opt)
• Oracle 10g running on
Microsoft Windows Vista
• 500 MB minimum
recommended for data
(/var/opt)
operating systems. Refer to
“HP-UX patches” for more
information.
• HP SIM private version of
PostgresSQL (hpsmdb)
Note: hpsmdb supports 500
systems and 5,000 events.
swap space
• 3 GB minimum total swap
space for PA-RISC systems
• Java Out-of-Box installed
(shipped as optional
• 4 GB minimum total swap
space for Intel®
Itanium®-based systems
selectable software as part
of the operating system)
• Firefox 1.5.0.12
• Firefox 2.0.0.4
NOTE: HP Integrity VMs do not support running an application at the same level as the host.
NOTE: If running OpenView NNM or OpenView Operations on the same system, the SNMP trap listening
port must be changed in those products to function properly. Refer to the OpenView product documentation
in the Integrating HP SIM 5.0 with HP OpenView Select Access white paper at http://h18000.www1.hp.com/
products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html.
NOTE: Legacy Novell systems with only an IPX network enabled will not be manageable by an HP-UX
CMS. An IP-based network must be available.
NOTE: If you are using Network Information Services (NIS), ping localhost and if you receive no response,
create or edit the file /etc/nsswitch.conf and add the following entry in the file: hosts: files
dns nis. If NIS server is not in the network, do not add the nis entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
HP-UX patches
There are required patches that must be installed to run HP Systems Insight Manager. All patches should be
installed before running HP Systems Insight Manager. In particular, all patches that are required to support
the Java that HP SIM uses must be installed.
Note: To determine the Java version installed, execute:
/opt/mx/j2re/bin/java –version
Currently, the product is shipped with Java 1.5 (or Java 5.0) Runtime Environment.
Note: For more information about java patches, go to http://www.hp.com/go/java, and select Patches
from the Site information. This site determines the recommended patches for the Java application. Follow
the instructions given. To download all of the patches, go to the ITRC download center (login required). For
more information on individual patches, click the patch name.
Downloading and installing individual HP-UX patches
To download patches:
18 Installation overview and requirements