HP Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX HP Part Number: 418810-007 Published: October 2010 Edition: 6.
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Table of Contents 1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................6 First time install process overview..............................................................................................................6 Upgrade overview...................................................................................................................................6 System requirements...............................................................................
Related documents................................................................................................................................40 Documentation and support..............................................................................................................40 HP Systems Insight Manager documentation........................................................................................40 Glossary......................................................................................
List of Tables 1-1 1-2 1-3 1-4 1-5 1-6 1-7 1-8 1-9 1-10 2-1 2-2 2-3 5-1 Supported HP c-Class platforms.........................................................................................................13 Supported HP e-Class platforms........................................................................................................13 Supported HP p-Class platforms........................................................................................................13 Supported c-Class Servers..
1 Installation overview and requirements This chapter provides an overview of the HP Systems Insight Manager installation process and 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 Chapter 2 “Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time”. 2.
NOTE: The ProLiant ML/DL 100 series servers do not support HP Insight Remote Support Advanced. If you are using Insight Remote Support Advanced, you must use a ProLiant 300, 500, 700, or Blade Server. • Swap space: • 3 GB minimum total swap space for PA-RISC systems • 4 GB minimum total swap space for Intel® Itanium®-based systems Software • OpenSSH installed • HP WBEM Services for HP-UX, installed and active • (Optional) Oracle 9i release 2 • (Optional) Oracle 10g R2 (10.2.0.
NOTE: To determine the Java version installed, execute: /opt/mx/j2re/bin/java –version Currently, the product is shipped with Java 1.6 (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. To download all of the patches, go to the ITRC download center (login required).
Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations Operating systems • Windows managed systems • Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard • Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise • Windows Server 2008 Data Center • Windows Server 2008 R2 Small Business Server • Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Server • Windows Server 2008 R2 Itanium • Windows Server 2008 Standard, SP2 • Windows Server 2008 Standard (x64), SP2 • Windows Server 2008 Standard (x64) • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, SP2 • Windows Server
• • 10 • Windows 2003 Data Center (IA64), SP1 • Windows 2003 Data Center, SP2 • Windows 2003 Data Center (x64), SP2 • Windows 2003 Data Center (IA64), SP2 • Windows 2003 Web Edition SP1 • Windows 2003 Web Edition SP2 • Windows 2003 Small Business SP1 • Windows 2003 Small Business SP2 • Windows 7 (Professional/Enterprise) • Windows 7 (Professional/Enterprise) (x64) • Windows Vista (Business/Enterprise) SP2 • Windows Vista (Business/Enterprise) (x64) SP2 • Windows Vista (Business/E
• • • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AMD64/EM64T, Update 6 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 IPF, SP1 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 x86, SP1 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 AMD64/EM64T, SP1 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 IPF • SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 x86 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 AMD64/EM64T • SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 IPF, SP3 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 x86, SP3 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 AMD64/EM64T, SP3 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 IPF, SP2 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 x86, SP2 • SUSE Enterprise Linux 1
• • SUN managed systems • Solaris 9 Sparc • Solaris 10 Sparc • Solaris 10 Intel Platform • Solaris 9 Intel Platform • Solaris 8 Intel Platform IBM managed systems • AIX 6.1 • AIX 5.
Foreign language support Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese are supported on all platforms as listed in “System requirements”. French, German, Italian, Spanish are supported on Windows systems only. HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager requirements HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager is comprised of blade computer systems, integrated connectivity to data and storage networks, and shared power subsystems.
Product Models Minimum Integrated Minimum BIOS – System Lights-Out (iLO) / iLO 2 / ROM required firmware version required Operating Systems Supported1 Minimum ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) required Windows Integrity BL860c 01.01A T 02.05 or later Windows, Linux, and HP-UX NA Integrity BL870c 03.11 TO2.05 or later Windows, Linux, and HP-UX NA PCI expansion blades NA NA NA NA ProLiant BL260c G6 NA 1.75 or later Windows, Linux, Solaris, 8.
Product Models ProLiant BL2000 Minimum Integrated Minimum BIOS – System Lights-Out (iLO) / iLO 2 / ROM required firmware version required 2.06 Rev. A 4.01 Rev. A2 Operating Systems Supported1 Minimum ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) required Windows Windows XP or Vista NA Windows XP or Vista NA 15 Jan 2008 ProLiant BL2500 2.06 Rev. A 4.01 Rev. A2 15 Jan 2008 1 2 For specific version of the operating systems, browse the ProLiant support matrix at http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/index.
Product Models Minimum Integrated Minimum BIOS – System Lights-Out (iLO) / iLO 2 / ROM required firmware version required ProLiant BL45p ProLiant BL45p G2 2007.09.23 (A) Operating Systems Supported1 Minimum ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) required Windows 1.70 or later Windows and Linux 7.20 or later 1.24 or later Windows and Linux 7.60 or later (4 Dec 2007) 1 For specific version of the operating systems, browse the ProLiant support matrix at http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/index.
Table 1-10 Supported p-Class Interconnects/Switches Product Models Minimum Software Management firmware version Brocade 4GB SAN Switch for HP p-class Blade system v5.3.0d Mcdata 4GB SAN Switch for HP p-class Blade system 6.4.0.07.00 HP ProLiant BL p-Class Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module 12.2(44)SE HP ProLiant BL p-Class GbE Interconnect Switch Module 2.1.9 HP ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch Module 3.2.3.
2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time Preparing the system 1. 2. 3. For a first time install of HP Systems Insight Manager on your CMS, install and configure the CMS. The procedure to complete this step is in this chapter. Install and configure the required management software on the systems that will be managed by the CMS. For more information on this step, see Chapter 3 “Setting up managed systems” for details. Configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment.
Under HP Systems Insight Manager and related components, select HP SIM-HP-UX, and then select Download latest version of HP SIM-HP-UX for a full product installation. 4. When installing Systems Insight Manager, Java Out-of-Box (JAVAOOB) is required and is automatically selected for installation. For additional information, see http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/java2/outofbox/index.html. The kernel parameter values that the JAVAOOB adjusts are listed in the following table.
Table 2-3 Oracle database commands Commands for an Oracle database Description –h Hostname Full DNS name or IP address of the Oracle server -n Portnumber Port number to be used to connect to the oracle instance. Default port is 1521 –d Databasename Name of database instance –u Username Database user name –p Password Database password for the corresponding user name –j Driverfilelocation Full path to thin driver jar file.
6. (Optional) To use the CMS as a managed system, install WBEM, if it is not already installed. WBEM requires OpenSSL, so be sure that OpenSSL is installed on the CMS by running the following command: swlist OpenSSL If this command returns "Error: Software "OpenSSL" was not found on host," then OpenSSL is not installed. OpenSSL is available on Software Depot at http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot or on your operating system media. a.
Systems Insight Manager Central Management Server as well as steps for setting up managed systems. For details, see Chapter 4 “Configuring Systems Insight Manager”. Systems Insight Manager is now installed and initialized on the CMS. Start the Systems Insight Manager GUI using Firefox at http://:280/. NOTE: The Systems Insight Manager Registration window and First Time Wizard appear when a user with full configuration rights logs in to Systems Insight Manager for the first time.
3 Setting up managed systems Perform step 2 to install and configure the required management software. 1. Install and configure the CMS. The procedure to complete this step is in the installation chapter of this guide. For details, see Chapter 2 “Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time”. 2. Install and configure the required management software on the systems that will be managed by the CMS. The procedure to complete this step is in this chapter. 3.
After the depots containing the software have been acquired, they can be installed from the managed system using commands such as: $ swinstall –s OpenSSL NOTE: HP WBEM Services depends on OpenSSL, so this must be installed first.
4 Configuring Systems Insight Manager Perform step 3 to configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment. 1. Install and configure the CMS. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time”. 2. Install and configure the required Insight Management Agents on the systems that will be managed by the CMS. For more information, see Chapter 3 “Setting up managed systems”. 3. Configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment.
NOTE: This page only appears if you selected to manage a Windows operating system. • Privilege Elevation Enable privilege elevation if, on HP-UX, Linux, and ESX managed systems, you are required to sign in as a non-root user and then request privilege elevation to run root-level tools. • E-mail Enter the e-mail settings that the CMS will use to send e-mail notifications.
5. Configure email settings. Email settings enables users to receive email notification of certain events. To configure email settings, select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→Email Settings. 6. Set up automatic event handling. Automatic event handling defines the action that Systems Insight Manager performs when an event is received. To setup automatic event handling, select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→New Task. 7. Configure and execute discovery.
password in single quotes if the password has any special characters, such as $. For more information and options, see the mxagentconfig manpage with man mxagentconfig. If SSH is not installed on the managed system, enter the following: swinstall -s /directory/depot T1471AA where directory is the path to the depot file and depot is the name of the depot file. For example: swinstall -s /tmp/HPSIM_download.depot T1471AA 4. Create subscriptions for WBEM events.
5 Upgrading Systems Insight Manager This chapter provides the steps to upgrade Systems Insight Manager 5.2 and later. Before beginning the Systems Insight Manager upgrade, verify that your user name and password to access to the database are valid.
c. d. 5. Download the new driver from the Oracle website at http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/index.html. Copy the JDBC driver file (ojdbc14.jar) to the [installdir]/lib and [installdir]/jboss/server/hpsim/lib directories. Install Systems Insight Manager: swinstall -s /directory/depot –x autoreboot=true HPSIM-HP-UX where directory is the path to the depot file and depot is the name of the depot file. For example: swinstall -s /tmp/HPSIM_download.
6 Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager from an HP-UX system CAUTION: Removing Systems Insight Manager permanently deletes the information in the database unless you back it up before removing the software. Procedure 6-1 Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager 1. Stop the Systems Insight Manager daemons: mxstop 2.
7 Configuration options Several configurable parameters in Systems Insight Manager that are not available from the GUI. These parameters can only be configured by editing a configuration file on the CMS. NOTE: All Systems Insight Manager parameters have been set to predefined values that are appropriate for most situations. Only change these parameters if you are experiencing issues with the default values.
Implementation • To configure the time-out policy, edit the globalsettings.props file. You can switch between these modes or change the time-out period. The default time-out policy is the monitor policy. The monitor policy is enabled when: EnableSessionKeepAlive=true To enable the active time-out policy, change this value to false. EnableSessionKeepAlive=false • To change the default time-out period, edit the web.xml file. Locate the session-timeout element, and set it to a new value in minutes.
NOTE: 3. /var/opt/mx/logs is listed here as an example. This path is user-defined. Restart the HP Systems Insight Manager daemons (mxstop and mxstart). After restarting the services, a new log file named mx.log resides in the directory specified in path.properties file. Configuring task results HP Systems Insight Manager enables you to set how long entries remain on the Task Results Page after a task completes.
Procedure 7-2 Keeping more than one job 1. 2. Stop HP Systems Insight Manager. Edit globalsettings.props and add: MX_JOB_MIN_COMPLETED_JOBS_PER_TASK=n Where n, is the number of task result you want to retain. 3. Start the HP Systems Insight Manager service to reflect the changes.
8 Troubleshooting Data collection issues Installation issues Memory issues HP Servicecontrol Manager and Systems Insight Manager issues Security 8.1 Data collection issues 8.8.1.
and you want to continue to run Systems Insight Manager in the future, upgrade to Systems Insight Manager using one of the following upgrade scenarios: • If HP Servicecontrol Manager 3.0 is configured on your system and you do not want to lose your data, you must upgrade HP Servicecontrol Manager before upgrading your system from HP-UX 11i v2 to HP-UX 11i v3. • If you do not want to keep any of the data from HP Servicecontrol Manager, you can remove SCM before starting the upgrade.
characters in the group must be identical, including case. Using the same example, the last two lines would look like this after editing: O/4Hcl9nRz0uZGcdsypjgW5CUDqZyzzeEB17DHWnC8qzEC7/D+VpW+5RdRTlhh5c DzdIjLZn -----END CERTIFICATE----Save the file, then try again to import it into the desired application. Note that some applications are more lenient than others and might work without fixing the certificate file.
9 Support and other resources Information to collect before contacting HP Be sure to have the following information available before you contact HP: • Software product name • Hardware product model number • Operating system type and version • Applicable error message • Third-party hardware or software • Technical support registration number (if applicable) How to contact HP Use the following methods to contact HP technical support: • In the United States, see the Customer Service / Contact HP U
Command user input computer output Enter term variable value Command name or qualified command phrase. Commands and other text that you type. Text displayed by the computer. The name of a keyboard key. Note that Return and Enter both refer to the same key. A sequence such as Ctrl+A indicates that you must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while pressing the A key. Defined use of an important word or phrase. The name of an environment variable, for example PATH or errno.
Glossary A administrative rights user A user who is authorized for the All Tools toolbox on all systems, including the Central Management Server. This type of user has been given special privileges to administer the HP Systems Insight Manager software. administrator A user who manages users, resource pools, and self-service requests through HP Insight Orchestration console. agent A program that regularly gathers information or performs some other service without the user's immediate presence.
certificate An electronic document that contains a subject's public key and identifying information about the subject. The certificate is signed by a certificate authority (CA) to bind the key and subject identification together. See also certificate authority. certificate authority (CA) A trusted third-party organization or company that issues digital certificates used to create digital signatures and public-private key pairs.
critical status A state generated when HP Systems Insight Manager can no longer communicate with a managed system. custom tools Custom tools are tools that can be created by the user to run on the Central Management Server or on target systems. For example: • Remote tool A tool that runs on selected target systems. It might copy files to the target systems or run specific X-Window applications on the target systems. You can schedule this tool. • CMS tool A tool that runs on the CMS.
enclosure A physical container for a set of server blades. It consists of a backplane that routes power and communication signals and additional hardware for cabling and thermal issues. It also hosts the CPU or server power supplies. event Information sent to certain users that something in the managed environment has changed. Events are generated from SNMP traps. HP Systems Insight Manager receives a trap when an important event occurs. Events are defined as: • Warning. • Informational. information.
HP Insight Control power management An integrated power monitoring and management application that provides centralized control of server power consumption and thermal output at the datacenter level. It extends the capacity of datacenters by enabling the user to control the amount of power and cooling required for ProLiant servers. Built on ProLiant Power Regulator Technology, it extends new server energy instrumentation levers into HP Systems Insight Manager for greater Unified Infrastructure Management.
managed systems Any system managed by HP Systems Insight Manager, such as servers, desktops, storage systems, and Remote Insight Boards (RIBs). management agent A daemon or process running on a managed system. It receives and executes requests from the Central Management Server on the managed system. management domain A collection of resources called managed systems that have been placed under the control of HP Systems Insight Manager.
O Onboard Administrator The Onboard Administrator is the central point for controlling an entire c-Class enclosure. It offers configuration, power, and administrative control over the rack, and its associated blades (Compute Servers), blade management processors (iLOs), network switches (depending on the models of switches used) and storage components (such as SAN or SATA). The Onboard Administrator is a single management processor, with shared resources to an optional backup twin processor for failover.
HP Insight Remote Support Advanced The HP Insight Remote Support Advanced provides proactive remote monitoring, diagnostics, and troubleshooting to help improve the availability of HP-supported servers and storage devices in your data center. The Insight Remote Support Advanced reduces cost and complexity in support of systems and devices. The Insight Remote Support Advanced securely communicates incident information through your firewall and/or Web proxy to the HP Support Center for reactive support.
Secure Shell (SSH) A program to log in to another system over a network and execute commands on that system. It also enables you to move files from one system to another, and it provides authentication and secure communications over insecure channels. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) A standard protocol layer that lies between HTTP and TCP and provides privacy and message integrity between a client and server.
Single Sign On Permission granted to an authenticated user browsing to HP Systems Insight Manager to browse to any of the managed systems from within HP Systems Insight Manager without re-authenticating to the managed system. HP Systems Insight Manager is the initial point of authentication, and browsing to another managed system must be from within HP Systems Insight Manager. single-system aware (SSA) A run type that does not support multi-system operations.
system health status system identification system information This is aggregate status all of the status sources (which can be SNMP, WBEM, and HTTP) that are supported on a target system, with the most critical status being displayed. The following are the different system health statuses that can be displayed: • Critical HP Systems Insight Manager can no longer communicate with the system. The system was previously discovered but cannot be pinged.
system status panel The section of the GUI on the left of the screen that displays status information and system or event alarms. system type One of 12 supplied types. You can add your own based on one of these types. For example, use Server type to create MyServer type. It is still a server and is reported on in the same way, but it has your designation.
U uncleared event status Events that have a Critical, Major, Minor, Normal, or Informational severity and have not been cleared or deleted from the database. Events can be cleared without being deleted from the database by using the Clear events menu option. • Critical. • Major. A failure is impending. • Minor. A warning condition exists that can escalate into a more serious problem. • Normal. • Informational. A failure has occurred, and immediate attention is required.
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) An API in the Windows operating system that enables you to manage and control systems in a network. workspace The section of the GUI where tools appear. X X client An application or tool that appears on an X server. X clients can also be called X applications. X server A local application that accepts X client requests and acts on them.
Index A M active time-out, 32 audit log configure, 33 managed environment First Time Wizard, 25 managed node (see managed system) managed system requirements, 9 setup, 23 setup tools, 24 monitor time-out, 32 C Central Management Server HP-UX system preparation, 18 install Systems Insight Manager on HP-UX, 19 requirements, 6 configuration audit log, 33 data collection CPU utilization, 32 lifetimes for Task Result entries, 34 managed system, 23 time-out policy, 32 configuration options, 32 configuring Fir
overview, 29 process, 29 56 Index
