Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for MS Windows

2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the
first time
Preparing the system
These steps are for a clean installation of HP Systems Insight Manager on your Windows system. If a previous
version of HP Systems Insight Manager is installed on your system and you want to upgrade your data, see
Upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager.
This procedure verifies that your system meets the minimum requirements and prepares your system for
installation.
1. Install and configure the CMS. The procedure to complete this step is in this chapter.
2. Configure HP Systems Insight Manager for your environment. See Chapter 3 “Configuring HP Systems
Insight Manager”.
3. Install and configure the required Insight Management Agents on the systems that are to be managed
by the CMS. This step is covered in the first section of Chapter 4 “Setting up and configuring managed
systems”.
4. Configure the remaining protocols for the managed systems. See Chapter 4 “Setting up and configuring
managed systems”.
NOTE: Installing the CMS on Windows uses the user desktop locale to determine the CMS locale. For
example, if you install the CMS on a German Windows system and the user desktop locale happens to be
English, then the CMS installed becomes an English CMS.
The language of mxlog.txt (a log file) currently depends on the CMS locale. If the installer user desktop
locale is German, mxlog.txt is logged in German, even though the CMS is installed on an English Windows
system and the browser locale is also English.
This happens because the Log On As property of the Systems Insight Manager service is configured as the
install user name, instead of Local System, which specifies system environment. Running the service with the
credentials of the user that installed the application is necessary for the service to have the necessary
credentials for database access and other CMS settings.
If you want the logs to be in a different language (German or English), you have three options:
• Stop Systems Insight Manager service. Change the default locale of the user account specified in the
Log On As property of the Systems Insight Manager service (the user that performed the install) to the
desired language, and restart the service.
• Stop Systems Insight Manager service. Change the Log On As user for the Systems Insight Manager
service to the local administrator account, and be sure its locale is set to the desired language. Restart
the service.
• If you do not want to change the default locale of either of the previous accounts to the desired language
for the logs, create a new administrator-level account with the desired default locale. Then uninstall
Systems Insight Manager and reinstall Systems Insight Manager specifying the new administrator-level
account.
Procedure 2-1 Verify and prepare system
1. Verify your system meets the minimum requirements. For details, see “System requirements”.
2. Install the required Windows and Microsoft SQL Server Service Packs.
NOTE: If you are using a remote SQL database, leave the default as Master to insure that all necessary
databases are created with correct permissions.
3. Verify your system has at least one partition formatted for the NTFS file system, on which the HP Systems
Insight Manager server software is to be installed.
If this requirement is not yet met, create or format an NTFS partition for use by HP Systems Insight
Manager.
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