HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

2 Installation overview and requirements
This chapter provides an overview of the HP SIM installation process, and it identifies the system requirements
for a Linux CMS, a managed system, and a network client.
First time install process overview
Perform these steps for a first time install of HP SIM on your CMS:
1. Install and configure the CMS. The procedure to complete this step is in the installation chapters of this
guide. Follow the appropriate chapter based on the operating system of your CMS. See
Chapter 3 “Installing HP SIM on the CMS for the first time” for details.
2. Install and configure the required Management Agents on the systems that will be managed by the
CMS. For more information on this step, see Chapter 4 “Setting up managed systems”.
3. Configure HP SIM for your environment. See Chapter 5 “Configuring HP SIM using the First Time
Wizard” or Chapter 6 “Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu” for the recommended tasks.
4. Configure the remaining protocols for the managed systems. See Chapter 7 “Configuring managed
systems” for details.
Upgrade overview
If HP SIM has previously been installed on your CMS proceed to the upgrade instructions in
Chapter 8 “Upgrading from HP Systems Insight Manager 4.x or later” for details.
System requirements
This section identifies the hardware and software requirements and recommendations for HP Systems Insight
Manager. These requirements are broken into sections by the CMS, managed system, and network client.
Linux Central Management Server
This section contains the requirements for the Linux operating system that is used for the CMS.
NetworkingSoftwareHardwareOperating system
Any HP IA-32 AMD64 or
EM64T system with the
following configuration:
• Static or dynamic host name
resolution
Note: On Linux, look for the
entry 127.0.0.1 localhost,
• OpenSSH version 1.0 or
later
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
for x86 with Update 1,
AMD64 and EM64T with
Update 1
• ProLiant Support Pack for
Linux 7.00 or later
• Minimum: 1.5-GHz
processor and 1 GB RAM
the local system IP address,
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
x86 with Update 6, AMD64
and EM64T with Update 6
• (Optional) Oracle 9i release
2
and the system name in the
/etc/hosts file. If they are
not present, add the entries
manually.
• Recommended: 2.4-GHz
processor and 1.5 GB RAM
• Oracle 10g
Note: Oracle supports
5,000 systems and 50,000
events.
Any HP system with Oracle 9i
installed minimum 4 GB RAM
free disk space
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 for x86 with Service
Pack 1, AMD64 and EM64T
with Service Pack 1
• SNMP
• 2 MB for CMS (/)
• SUSE Linux Server 9 for x86
with Service Pack 4,
• Oracle 10g running on
Microsoft Windows Vista
• 400 MB for the CMS and
DTF agent (/opt)
AMD64 and Intel EM64T
with Service Pack 4
• HP SIM private version of
PostgresSQL (hpsmdb)
Note: hpsmdb supports 500
systems and 5,000 events.
• 500 MB minimum
recommended for data
(/var/opt)
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