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

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1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................6

First time install process overview..............................................................................................................6

Upgrade overview...................................................................................................................................6

System requirements................................................................................................................................6

Part 1: HP-UX Central Management Server............................................................................................6

HP-UX patches..............................................................................................................................7

Downloading and installing individual HP-UX patches.......................................................................8

Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations...................................................................9

Managed storage system..................................................................................................................12

Foreign language support.................................................................................................................13

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager requirements....................................................................................13

System support................................................................................................................................13

Hardware support............................................................................................................................13

2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time.................18

Preparing the system..............................................................................................................................18

Installing and configuring the software.....................................................................................................19

Tuning Systems Insight Manager (Optional) .............................................................................................21

Next steps............................................................................................................................................21

3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................23

Installing the required software on an HP-UX system...................................................................................23

Setting up managed storage systems.......................................................................................................24

Setting up managed systems using the Systems Insight Manager interface....................................................24

Installing SMI-S providers.......................................................................................................................24

Verifying SSL........................................................................................................................................24

Configuring SMI-S providers...................................................................................................................24

4 Configuring Systems Insight Manager.........................................................25

Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard...............................................................25

Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu....................................................................26

Configuring HP-UX systems manually.......................................................................................................27

5 Upgrading Systems Insight Manager...........................................................29

6 Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager..........................................................31

Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager from an HP-UX system.......................................................................31

7 Configuration options................................................................................32

CPU utilization during data collection......................................................................................................32

Overview........................................................................................................................................32

Implementation................................................................................................................................32

GUI time-out policy...............................................................................................................................32

Overview........................................................................................................................................32

Implementation................................................................................................................................33

HP Systems Insight Manager audit log configuration..................................................................................33

Overview........................................................................................................................................33

Implementation................................................................................................................................33

Configuring task results..........................................................................................................................34

8 Troubleshooting........................................................................................36

9 Support and other resources......................................................................39

Information to collect before contacting HP...............................................................................................39

How to contact HP................................................................................................................................39

Registering for software technical support and update service.....................................................................39

How to use your software technical support and update service.............................................................39

Warranty information.......................................................................................................................39

Typographic conventions........................................................................................................................39

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