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

1 Installation overview and requirements

This chapter provides an overview of the HP Systems Insight Manager installation process, and it

identifies the system requirements for a HP-UX CMS, a managed system, and a network client.

First time install process overview

Perform these steps for a first time install of HP Systems Insight Manager on your CMS:

1. Install and configure the CMS. For details, see “Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the

CMS for the first time” (page 20).

2. Install and configure the required management software on the systems that will be managed

by the CMS. For more information, see “Setting up managed systems” (page 25).

3. Configure HP Systems Insight Manager for your environment. For more information, see chapter

“Configuring Systems Insight Manager” (page 28).

Upgrade overview

If HP Systems Insight Manager is installed on your CMS, see the upgrade instructions in "“Upgrading

Systems Insight Manager” (page 34) for details.

System requirements

This section identifies the hardware and software requirements and recommendations for HP Insight

Control. These requirements are broken into sections for the CMS, managed system, and network

client.

Part 1: HP-UX Central Management Server

Operating system

• HP-UX 11i v2 Update 2 (11.23 PI-PA)

• HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31 IA/PA)

• Integrity Virtual Machine running guest with HP-UX 11i v2

• Integrity Virtual Machine running guest with HP-UX 11i v3

NOTE: The HP Systems Insight Manager CMS cannot run on an HPVM host.

NOTE: The required patches must be installed for each of these operating systems. For more

information, see “HP-UX patches” (page 7).

Hardware

• Any HP system (PA-RISC 2.0 or Integrity) server with a minimum of 2 GB RAM (3 GB for HP-UX

11i v3)

• Any HP system with Oracle installed with a minimum of 4 GB RAM

• Free disk space:

20 MB for CMS (/)◦

◦ 600 MB for the CMS and DTF agent (/opt)

◦ 500 MB minimum recommended for data (/var/opt)

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