ISS Technology Update, Volume 6 Number 8 - Newsletter

ISS Technology Update Volume 6, Number 8
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ProLiant management tip of the month
Best Practices 1-2-3 for installing HP SIM on a Windows CMS
If you were to print out the Installation Guide and the User Guide for HP SIM with double-sided printing enabled to save paper,
you would still have an impressive stack of paper that would probably never actually be read. For all of you time-challenged
professionals, here we offer the simple 3-step method to installing HP SIM the easy and painless way:
Step 1: Use the Insight Control DVD installation, even if you do not plan to use anything other than HP SIM.
The Insight Control Environment Advisor (Figure 6-1) does a pre-requisite check to make sure that the SNMP stack is loaded and
configured as well as many other items that will ensure a painless installation.
Figure 6-1. Insight Control Environment Advisor screen
The Insight Control Environment installer also prompts for information that is needed to successfully complete installation so it
can all be done up-front, and manual post-installation steps do not have to be remembered and executed, such as first-time
discovery.