Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

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Table of Contents

1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................6

First time install process overview..............................................................................................................6

Upgrade overview...................................................................................................................................6

System requirements................................................................................................................................6

Linux Central Management Server........................................................................................................6

Managed system requirements and recommendations.............................................................................9

Managed storage system..................................................................................................................14

SSH requirements.............................................................................................................................14

Foreign language support.................................................................................................................14

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP Insight Control requirements.......................................................14

System support................................................................................................................................14

Hardware support............................................................................................................................15

2 Installing HP SIM on the CMS for the first time..............................................19

Preparing the system..............................................................................................................................19

Installing and configuring the software.....................................................................................................20

Automatically installing HP SIM ........................................................................................................20

Manually installing HP SIM...............................................................................................................20

After installing HP SIM......................................................................................................................22

Next steps............................................................................................................................................24

3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................26

Installing the ProLiant or Integrity Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time..........................................26

Setting up managed storage systems.......................................................................................................26

Installing SMI-S providers.......................................................................................................................26

Verifying SSL........................................................................................................................................26

Configuring SMI-S providers...................................................................................................................26

Configuring HP SIM to discover storage systems........................................................................................27

4 Configuring HP SIM..................................................................................28

Configuring HP SIM using the First Time Wizard.......................................................................................28

Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu............................................................................................29

Setting up Linux managed systems manually.............................................................................................30

5 Upgrading from HP SIM............................................................................32

Upgrading HP SIM in Linux....................................................................................................................32

Installing HP System Management Homepage and HP SIM.........................................................................34

6 Uninstalling HP SIM..................................................................................35

Uninstalling HP SIM from a Linux system...................................................................................................35

7 Configuration options................................................................................36

CPU utilization during data collection......................................................................................................36

Overview........................................................................................................................................36

Implementation................................................................................................................................36

GUI time-out policy...............................................................................................................................36

Overview........................................................................................................................................36

Implementation................................................................................................................................37

HP SIM audit log configuration...............................................................................................................37

Overview........................................................................................................................................37

Implementation................................................................................................................................37

Configuring task results..........................................................................................................................38

8 Troubleshooting........................................................................................40

Browser issues......................................................................................................................................40

GUI issues............................................................................................................................................40

Installation issues..................................................................................................................................40

Sign in issues.......................................................................................................................................41

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