Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

5 Upgrading from HP SIM
This chapter provides the steps to upgrade HP SIM 5.2 and later. Before beginning the HP SIM upgrade,
verify that your user name and password to access to the database are valid. When you perform and
upgrade, HP SIM checks for a previous installation of HP SIM, stops HP SIM and all related services and
daemons, overwrites or copies files to the appropriate locations on the CMS, and then restarts HP SIM and
all related services.
Upgrading HP SIM in Linux
NOTE: Migration from SCM 3.0 to HP SIM 5.x on a Linux CMS is not supported.
You can upgrade HP SIM automatically or manually. An automatic install executes the .bin file, verifies
the prerequisites and completes the upgrade. A manual install requires that you execute the separate steps
to unpack files and then upgrade HP SIM.
1. Extract the .rpm files from the .bin file. Set the permissions to include the right to execute the .bin file
by executing the following command:
chmod u+x HPSIM-Linux_C.05.*.bin --noexec --target mxserver
NOTE: Refer to Step 4 for information on setting permissions.
2. To change the directory to mxserver, execute the following command:
cd mxserver
NOTE: If you are using hpsmd as your database, continue with Step 3 through Step 5. If you are
using Oracle as your database, skip to Step 6.
3. Install the hpsmdb database, using the appropriate .rpm files in the following order.
NOTE: The rpm -i hpsmdb-*.rpm command installs hpsmdb on your system.
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 or later
rpm -ivh hpsmdb-sles10-*.i586.rpm
• 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 or later
rpm -ivh hpsmdb-sles10-*.x86_64.rpm
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
rpm -ivh hpsmdb-sles11-*.x86_64.rpm
NOTE: If you is using SUSE 9 with older version of HP SIM, then user has to upgrade SUSE 10 or
SUSE 11.
4. Verify that the hpsmdb status reads running.
• For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (all versions):
NOTE: By default, the hpsmdb service is configured to run in INIT 3 and 5 level.
a. Execute the serviceconf command. The Service Configuration window appears.
NOTE: Use the ntsysv command instead of serviceconfif you are running from a CLI
prompt.
b. Scroll down to the hpsmdb entry.
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