HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

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Contents

1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................5

First time install process overview................................................................................................5

Upgrade overview....................................................................................................................5

System requirements..................................................................................................................5

Part 1: HP-UX Central Management Server..............................................................................5

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

Downloading and installing individual HP-UX patches..........................................................7

Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations.....................................................8

Managed storage system....................................................................................................14

Foreign language support...................................................................................................14

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager requirements......................................................................14

System support..................................................................................................................14

Hardware support..............................................................................................................15

2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time.................20

Preparing the system...............................................................................................................20

Installing and configuring the software......................................................................................21

Tuning Systems Insight Manager (Optional) ...............................................................................24

Next steps.............................................................................................................................24

3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................25

Installing the required software on an HP-UX system....................................................................25

Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................26

Setting up managed systems using the Systems Insight Manager interface......................................26

Installing SMI-S providers.........................................................................................................26

Verifying SSL..........................................................................................................................27

Configuring SMI-S providers.....................................................................................................27

4 Configuring Systems Insight Manager.........................................................28

Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................28

Operating-system-specific collections.....................................................................................29

Operating-system-specific reports.........................................................................................30

Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu......................................................30

Configuring HP-UX systems manually.........................................................................................32

5 Upgrading Systems Insight Manager...........................................................34

6 Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager..........................................................36

Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager from an HP-UX system.........................................................36

7 Configuration options................................................................................37

CPU utilization during data collection........................................................................................37

Overview..........................................................................................................................37

Implementation..................................................................................................................37

GUI time-out policy.................................................................................................................37

Overview..........................................................................................................................37

Implementation..................................................................................................................38

HP Systems Insight Manager audit log configuration...................................................................38

Overview..........................................................................................................................38

Implementation..................................................................................................................39

Configuring task results...........................................................................................................39

8 Troubleshooting........................................................................................41

9 Support and other resources......................................................................44

Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................44

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