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

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Preparing the system

1. For a first time install of HP Systems Insight Manager on your CMS, 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 “Setting up managed systems” (page 25)

for details.

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

“Configuring Systems Insight Manager” (page 28).

Perform the following, to install Systems Insight Manager on an HP-UX 11i system. To upgrade

Systems Insight Manager, see “Upgrading Systems Insight Manager” (page 34).

NOTE: HP Servicecontrol Manager is no longer supported. If HP Servicecontrol Manager is

installed on your system, and you want to upgrade your system and keep your data, you must

perform the following steps:

1. Obtain Systems Insight Manager version 4.2. and follow the user documentation upgrade

instructions.

2. Obtain Systems Insight Manager version 5.1 and perform a Systems Insight Manager 5.1

upgrade.

3. Obtain HP Systems Insight Manager version 5.2 and perform a Systems Insight Manager 5.2

upgrade.

4. Obtain Systems Insight Manager version 6.0 and perform a Systems Insight Manager 6.0

upgrade. For more information, see “Upgrading Systems Insight Manager” (page 34).

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

for installation. For more information, see “System requirements” (page 5).

1. Install the latest recommended HP-UX 11i Java patches.

For a list of the recommended patches, see http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/

patches/index.html.

2. Verify that a previous version of HP Servicecontrol Manager or Systems Insight Manager is

not installed and configured for use by issuing the following commands:

swlist -l bundle B8337BA B8339BA B8338BA T2414BA

swlist -l product ServControlMgr AgentConfig SysMgmtServer

SysMgmtAgent

If any of these are installed and have been configured for use, perform an upgrade to save

your data. If the version of the SysMgmtServer product starts with B.04 or C.04 use the steps

in Upgrading Systems Insight Manager.

Or you can uninstall HP Servicecontrol Manager or Systems Insight Manager using the following

command:

swremove -x enforce_dependencies=false ID

where ID is the product or bundle ID. For example:

swremove -x enforce_dependencies=false B8339BA

swremove -x enforce_dependencies=false T2414BA

Remove the old product subdirectories by executing the following command:

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