HP Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the

first time

Preparing the system

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment. For more information, see

Chapter 4 “Configuring Systems Insight Manager”.

Perform the following, to install Systems Insight Manager on an HP-UX 11i system. To upgrade Systems

Insight Manager, see Chapter 5 “Upgrading Systems Insight Manager”.

NOTE: HP Servicecontrol Manager is no longer supported. If HP Servicecontrol Manager is installed on

your system, and you want to upgrade your system and keep your data, you must perform the following

steps:

1. Obtain Systems Insight Manager version 4.2. and follow the user documentation upgrade instructions.

2. Obtain Systems Insight Manager version 5.1 and perform a Systems Insight Manager 5.1 upgrade.

3. Obtain HP Systems Insight Manager version 5.2 and perform a Systems Insight Manager 5.2 upgrade.

4. Obtain Systems Insight Manager version 6.0 and perform a Systems Insight Manager 6.0 upgrade.

For more information, see Chapter 5 “Upgrading Systems Insight Manager”.

This procedure verifies that your system meets the minimum requirements and prepares your system for

installation. For more information, see “System requirements”.

1. Install the latest recommended HP-UX 11i Java patches.

For a list of the recommended patches, see http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/patches/

index.html.

2. Verify that a previous version of HP Servicecontrol Manager or Systems Insight Manager is not installed

and configured for use by issuing the following commands:

swlist -l bundle B8337BA B8339BA B8338BA T2414BA

swlist -l product ServControlMgr AgentConfig SysMgmtServer SysMgmtAgent

If any of these are installed and have been configured for use, perform an upgrade to save your data.

If the version of the SysMgmtServer product starts with B.04 or C.04 use the steps in Upgrading Systems

Insight Manager.

Or you can uninstall HP Servicecontrol Manager or Systems Insight Manager using the following

command:

swremove –x enforce_dependencies=false ID

where ID is the product or bundle ID. For example:

swremove –x enforce_dependencies=false B8339BA

swremove –x enforce_dependencies=false T2414BA

Remove the old product subdirectories by executing the following command:

rm -fr /opt/mx /etc/opt/mx

The database for the ServiceControl Manager, mysql, can be removed by executing the following

command:

swremove mysql

3. Download the software, or locate a copy of the software on a depot server.

To download the software, see http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim, and on the upper-left of the page under

HP management software, click Download. The Systems Insight Manager Download page appears.

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