README - HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3

The Windows installer verifies whether Internet Explorer 6.0 or later is present and, if not, aborts the
installation. If Internet Explorer 5.x or earlier is installed, it must be upgraded to Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
for the HP SIM install to complete successfully.
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The domain user must be a part of the local administrators group (or domain admin) to run custom commands.
On Windows 2003, if after adding a domain user account to HP SIM, custom commands do not execute
for that user:>
1. Add the domain user information to the group and password files by running the following commands:
• sshuser -u username -d domain name >> ..\etc\passwd
• mkgroup -d >>..\etc\group
2. Deploy the SSH keys with the following command:
mxagentconfig -a -n <nodename of CMS> -u <username> -p <password>
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If installing HP SIM with a local MSDE (or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition) database on a
Windows XP SP2 machine that is not a ember of a domain, Simple File Sharing is automatically disabled.
The Simple File Sharing setting on Windows XP Professional changes the way local users are authenticated.
Enabled = Guest only - Local users authenticate as Guest
Disabled = Classic - Local users authenticate as themselves
This configuration can be seen in the Local Security Policy Editor under (Start→Control
Panel→Administrative Tools→Local Security Policy.
Select Security Settings→Local Policies→Security Options→Network access: Sharing and security
model for local accounts.
This change is necessary for the database install.
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Running the command
rpm --verify hpsim-pgsql-config
might report certain failing files. You can safely ignore these unless a file is listed as missing.
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HP SIM does not support operating system or database user names or passwords that contain a space
character.
HP SIM does not support Oracle user names that contain a forward slash (/) or backward slash (\).
In Oracle, a question mark (?) in the user name or password is created as :1
For example: user? is created as user:1
Therefore, the database configuration screen does not pass an Oracle user name or password containing
a question mark (?). A message appears that states, Specified credentials are invalid.
The workaround for this issue is to replace the ? with :1 on the HP SIM database configuration screen.
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If installing HP SIM on a Windows XP SP2 machine that is not a member of a domain, Simple File Sharing
is automatically disabled.
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Though a pure Microsoft environment can support non-standard system names (for example, using characters
outside the English alphabet), HP SIM does not and cannot be installed on these systems.
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