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

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 (10.2.0.3) or later
NOTE: Oracle supports up to 5,000 systems and 50,000 events.
NOTE: You must install the Oracle JDBC driver, version 10.2.0.4. You can download this driver from
the Oracle website at http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/index.html.
NOTE: The Oracle database must be created with Unicode character set of AL32UTF8 and national
character set of AL16UTF16 before installing Systems Insight Manager. The NLS Length must be set to
BYTE. You must also specify the thin client .jar file location. HP Systems Insight Manager requires Oracle
database and Transparent Network Substrate (TNS) listener services to be up and running when system
is restarted. Oracle by itself does not start the Oracle database and TNS listener automatically. An
Oracle database administrator (DBA) must set these services to be restarted when the server is reset.
For details on how to auto start these services, see the Oracle documentation at
http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/html/A96167_01/post-inst.htm#sthref548. Access to this link
requires registration. The Oracle DBA who manages the Oracle installation must perform this task.
• PostgresSQL 7.4.2
NOTE: The hpsmdb version supports up to 500 systems and 5,000 events.
• Java Out-of-Box installed (shipped as optional selectable software as part of the operating system)
Browser software:
▲ Mozilla Firefox 3.5 (3.5.09.00)
Networking Properly configured and working Domain Name System (DNS).
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 Systems Insight Manager 6.0 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 the 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 Systems Insight Manager uses must be installed.
System requirements 7