HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with Update 1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux HP Part Number: 418811-005 Published: April 2009 Edition: 5.3.1

3 Installing HP SIM on the CMS for the first time

Preparing the system

Perform step 1 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 this chapter.

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

CMS. For more information on this step, see Chapter 4 “Setting up managed systems” for details.

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.

This procedure verifies that your system meets the minimum requirements and prepares your system for HP

Systems Insight Manager installation.

NOTE: The “\“ at the end of each command line represents that the command is on the same line.

To verify and prepare your system, perform the following procedure:

1. Verify your system meets the minimum requirements. See “System requirements” for details.

2. If you plan to use an Oracle database, refer to your Oracle provider for instructions.

For Oracle:

NOTE: The Oracle database must be created with Unicode character set of AL32UTF8 and national

character set of AL16UTF16 before installing HP SIM. The NLS Length must be set to BYTE. You must

also specify the thin client .jar file location. HP SIM requires Oracle database and Transparent Network

Substrate (TNS) listener services to be up and running when system is restarted. Oracle by itself does

not start the Oracle database and TNS listener automatically. An Oracle database administrator (DBA)

must set these services to be restarted when the server is reset. See the Oracle documentation for details

on how to automatically start these services at

http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/html/A96167_01/post-inst.htm#sthref548. Access to this link

requires registration, which is free. The Oracle DBA who manages the Oracle installation must perform

this task.

Install Oracle on the local system before installing HP Systems Insight Manager. Create a database user

name with DBA privileges, or if you plan on using Oracle as the remote database, you must have the

database and user name with DBA privilege to configure HP Systems Insight Manager. Refer to After

installing HP Systems Insight Manager to configure HP Systems Insight Manager to use a newly created

Oracle database.

3. Download the HP Systems Insight Manager software. To download the software, see

http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim and on the upper-left of the page under HP management software, click

Download. The HP Systems Insight Manager's Download Page appears. Under HP Systems Insight

Manager and related components, select HP SIM-Linux and Download latest version of HP

SIM-Linux for a full product install.

4. In the directory where you downloaded or copied the files, change user permissions to add execute

permissions to the bin file:

chmod +x *.bin

chmod +x HPSIM*.bin

5. Verify that the following required software dependencies are available on your system, and install any

that are not already installed.

a. Verify that SSH is installed by executing the following command:

rpm -qa | grep ssh

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