HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

NOTE: Systems Insight Manager can run on a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) provided the following
requirements are met. The VM must be hosted on an ESX 3.0.1 or later server and the VM
configuration must meet Systems Insight Manager hardware requirements and the CPU and Memory
resources allocated to this VM must be always available to this VM (by reserving CPU and Memory
resources).
NOTE: Installing a Systems Insight Manager CMS on Linux Itanium Processor Family (IPF) is not
supported. If you see the following error message, it is because you are attempting to manually
install on an unsupported IPF system:
• error: %pre(hpsim-C.05.02.00.00-1.i386) sciptlet failed, exit status
255
• error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping
hpsim-C.05.02.00.00-1
Hardware
• Any HP IA-32 AMD64 or EM64T system with the following configuration:
Minimum: 1.5-GHz processor and 1 GB RAM◦
◦ Recommended: 2.4-GHz processor and 2 GB RAM
• Any HP system with Oracle 9i installed minimum 4 GB RAM
• Free disk space:
2 MB for CMS (/)◦
◦ 400 MB for the CMS and DTF agent (/opt)
◦ 500 MB minimum recommended for data (/var/opt)
Software
System requirements 7