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

5 Upgrading Systems Insight Manager
This chapter provides the steps to upgrade Systems Insight Manager 5.3.1 and later. Before
beginning the Systems Insight Manager upgrade, verify that your user name and password to
access to the database are valid. When you perform and upgrade, Systems Insight Manager
checks for a previous installation of Systems Insight Manager, stops Systems Insight Manager and
all related services and daemons, overwrites or copies files to the appropriate locations on the
CMS, and then restarts Systems Insight Manager and all related services.
NOTE: If you are upgrading from Systems Insight Manager 5.x with Virtual Server Environment
4.x, you will also need to upgrade to Virtual Server Environment 6.x after upgrading Systems
Insight Manager 6.x.
Procedure 8 Upgrading Systems Insight Manager
1. Verify that your system meets the minimum requirements.
NOTE: Systems Insight Manager does not support upgrading to an Oracle database. Oracle
is supported on a fresh installation only.
2. Install the latest required and recommended HP-UX 11i patches. For more information, see
http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/patches/index.html.
If you are running the 2002 release of HP-UX 11.11 (11i v1), apply the required and
recommend patches to save time during the upgrade process. If you do not apply the patches,
you could experience extended upgrade times of 2 hours before you can log in to the system
after an upgrade. If initconfig.log shows 100% completion and you cannot browse into
Systems Insight Manager on port 280, then stop and start the Systems Insight Manager service
by running mxstop and mxstart respectively. If the browser is not displaying the pages
properly, shut down all the browsers to clear the cache.
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 select Download under
HP management software on the upper-left of the screen. The Systems Insight Manager
Download Page appears. Under HP Systems Insight Manager and related components, select
Systems Insight Manager-HP-UX, and select Download latest version of Systems Insight
Manager-HP-UX for a full product install.
When installing Systems Insight Manager, Java Out-of-Box and SSH are required, and
automatically selected for installation. For additional information about Java Out-of-Box, see
http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/java2/outofbox/index.html. The Java Out-of-Box
settings and kernel parameter values required for Systems Insight Manager:
Table 15 Systems Insight Manager kernel configuration parameters
Kernel parameter valuesJava Out-of-Box settings
20dbc_max_pct
4096semmns
2048semmni
When you install Systems Insight Manager, the following software dependencies are required:
SysMgmtDB, JAVAOOB, and SSH. If you would like Systems Insight Manager to manage
your CMS you must install WBEM if it is not already installed. If you downloaded your software
from the Web, these dependency packages are included in the depot file. The installation
procedure will be described using this depot.
4. If you have an Oracle database, after upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager do the following:
34 Upgrading Systems Insight Manager