HP Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

5 Upgrading Systems Insight Manager

This chapter provides the steps to upgrade Systems Insight Manager 5.2 and later. Before beginning the

Systems Insight Manager upgrade, verify that your user name and password to access to the database are

valid. When you perform and upgrade, Systems Insight Manager checks for a previous installation of Systems

Insight Manager, stops Systems Insight Manager and all related services and daemons, overwrites or copies

files to the appropriate locations on the CMS, and then restarts Systems Insight Manager and all related

services.

NOTE: If you are upgrading from Systems Insight Manager 5.x with Virtual Server Environment 4.x, you

will also need to upgrade to Virtual Server Environment 6.x after upgrading Systems Insight Manager 6.x.

Procedure 5-1 Upgrading Systems Insight Manager

1. Verify that your system meets the minimum requirements.

NOTE: Systems Insight Manager does not support upgrading to an Oracle database. Oracle is

supported on a fresh installation only.

2. Install the latest required and recommended HP-UX 11i patches. For more information, see http://

www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/patches/index.html.

If you are running the 2002 release of HP-UX 11.11 (11i v1), apply the required and recommend

patches to save time during the upgrade process. If you do not apply the patches, you could experience

extended upgrade times of 2 hours before you can log in to the system after an upgrade. If initconfig.log

shows 100% completion and you cannot browse into Systems Insight Manager on port 280, then stop

and start the Systems Insight Manager service by running mxstop and mxstart respectively. If the browser

is not displaying the pages properly, shut down all the browsers to clear the cache.

3. Download the software, or locate a copy of the software on a depot server.

To download the software, see http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim, and select Download under HP

management software on the upper-left of the screen. The Systems Insight Manager Download Page

appears. Under HP Systems Insight Manager and related components, select Systems Insight

Manager-HP-UX, and select Download latest version of Systems Insight Manager-HP-UX for a

full product install.

When installing Systems Insight Manager, Java Out-of-Box and SSH are required, and automatically

selected for installation. For additional information about Java Out-of-Box, see

http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/java2/outofbox/index.html. The Java Out-of-Box settings

and kernel parameter values required for Systems Insight Manager:

Table 5-1 Systems Insight Manager kernel configuration parameters

Kernel parameter valuesJava Out-of-Box settings

20dbc_max_pct

2048semmns

1024semmni

When you install Systems Insight Manager, the following software dependencies are required:

SysMgmtDB, JAVAOOB, and SSH. If you would like Systems Insight Manager to manage your CMS

you must install WBEM if it is not already installed. If you downloaded your software from the Web,

these dependency packages are included in the depot file. The installation procedure will be described

using this depot.

4. If you have an Oracle database, after upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager do the following:

a. Stop HP Systems Insight Manager.

b. Search for a file named ojdbc14.jar in the [installdir]/lib and [installdir]/jboss/server/hpsim/lib

directories and remove it from any locations where it is found.