HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

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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: Linux Central Management Server................................................................................5

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

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

SSH requirements...............................................................................................................14

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

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

System support..................................................................................................................15

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

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

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

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

Automatically installing Systems Insight Manager ..................................................................21

Manually installing Systems Insight Manager.........................................................................22

After installing Systems Insight Manager...............................................................................23

Next steps.............................................................................................................................27

3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................28

Installing the Proliant or Integrity Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time............................28

Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................28

Installing SMI-S providers.........................................................................................................28

Verifying SSL..........................................................................................................................28

Configuring SMI-S providers.....................................................................................................29

Configuring Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems.................................................29

4 Configuring Systems Insight Manager.........................................................30

Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................30

Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu......................................................31

Setting up Linux managed systems manually...............................................................................32

5 Upgrading from Systems Insight Manager....................................................35

Upgrading Systems Insight Manager in Linux..............................................................................35

Installing System Management Homepage and Systems Insight Manager.......................................37

6 Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager..........................................................38

Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager from a Linux system............................................................38

7 Configuration options................................................................................39

CPU utilization during data collection........................................................................................39

Overview..........................................................................................................................39

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

GUI time-out policy.................................................................................................................39

Overview..........................................................................................................................39

Implementation..................................................................................................................40

HP Systems Insight Manager audit log configuration...................................................................40

Overview..........................................................................................................................40

Implementation..................................................................................................................41

Configuring task results...........................................................................................................41

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