Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

2 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.

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

CMS. See Chapter 3 “Setting up managed systems” for details.

3. Configure HP SIM for your environment. See Chapter 4 “Configuring HP SIM”.

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

HP SIM installation.

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.

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 SIM. 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 SIM. To configure HP Systems Insight Manager to use a

newly created Oracle database, see After installing HP SIM.

3. Download the HP SIM 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 SIM 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

If SSH is not installed, the previous command does not return any results. Install SSH from your

Linux operating system CD before continuing with the HP SIM installation.

b. Verify that SNMP is installed by executing the following command:

rpm -qa | grep snmp

If SNMP is not installed, the previous command does not return any results. Install SNMP from your

Linux operating system CD before continuing with the HP SIM installation.

c. Verify that standard C++ libraries (compat-libstdc++-7.3) are installed:

rpm -qa | grep compat

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