HP Systems Insight Manager 7.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

Contents
1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................5
First time install process overview................................................................................................5
Upgrade overview....................................................................................................................5
System requirements..................................................................................................................5
Support for Adobe Flash player.............................................................................................5
Part 1: Linux Central Management Server................................................................................5
Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations.....................................................9
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 6.0..............................................................18
Managed storage system....................................................................................................19
SSH requirements...............................................................................................................19
Foreign language support...................................................................................................19
HP CloudSystem Integrated Manager requirements.....................................................................19
System support..................................................................................................................19
Hardware support..............................................................................................................20
2 Installing HP SIM on the CMS for the first time..............................................27
Preparing the system...............................................................................................................27
Installing and configuring the software......................................................................................28
Automatically installing HP SIM ..........................................................................................28
Manually installing HP SIM.................................................................................................29
After installing HP SIM........................................................................................................30
Enabling Linux VCRM features........................................................................................34
Next steps.............................................................................................................................35
3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................36
Installing the Proliant or Integrity Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time............................36
Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................36
Installing SMI-S providers.........................................................................................................36
Verifying SSL..........................................................................................................................36
Configuring SMI-S providers.....................................................................................................37
Configuring HP SIM to discover storage systems.........................................................................37
RHEL 6.0 installation instructions...............................................................................................37
4 Configuring HP SIM..................................................................................39
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................39
Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu..............................................................................40
Setting up Linux managed systems manually...............................................................................41
5 Upgrading from HP SIM............................................................................43
Upgrading HP SIM in Linux......................................................................................................43
6 Uninstalling HP SIM..................................................................................46
Uninstalling HP SIM from a Linux system....................................................................................46
7 Configuration options................................................................................47
CPU utilization during data collection........................................................................................47
Overview..........................................................................................................................47
Implementation..................................................................................................................47
GUI time-out policy.................................................................................................................47
Overview..........................................................................................................................47
Implementation..................................................................................................................48
Systems Insight Manager audit log configuration........................................................................48
Overview..........................................................................................................................48
Implementation..................................................................................................................49
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