HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

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Preparing the system

1. For a first time install of Systems Insight Manager on your CMS, install and configure the CMS.

The procedure to complete this step is in this chapter.

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

by the CMS. For more information on this step, see “Setting up managed systems” (page 27)

for details.

3. Configure HP SIM for your environment. For more information, see “Configuring Systems

Insight Manager” (page 30).

Perform the following, to install HP SIM on an HP-UX 11i system. To upgrade HP SIM, see

“Upgrading HP SIM” (page 36).

NOTE: HP Servicecontrol Manager is no longer supported. If HP Servicecontrol Manager is

installed on your system, and you want to upgrade your system and keep your data, you must

perform the following steps:

1. Obtain HP SIM version 4.2. and follow the user documentation upgrade instructions.

2. Obtain HP SIM version 5.1 and perform a HP SIM 5.1 upgrade.

3. Obtain Systems Insight Manager version 5.2 and perform a HP SIM 5.2 upgrade.

4. Obtain HP SIM version 6.0 and perform a HP SIM 6.0 upgrade. For more information, see

“Upgrading HP SIM” (page 36).

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

for installation. For more information, see “System requirements” (page 5).

1. Install the latest recommended HP-UX 11i Java patches.

For a list of the recommended patches, see http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/hpuxjava-patchinfo/

index.html.

2. Verify that a previous version of HP Servicecontrol Manager or HP SIM is not installed and

configured for use by issuing the following commands:

swlist -l bundle B8337BA B8339BA B8338BA T2414BA

swlist -l product ServControlMgr AgentConfig SysMgmtServer

SysMgmtAgent

If any of these are installed and have been configured for use, perform an upgrade to save

your data. If the version of the SysMgmtServer product starts with B.04 or C.04 use the steps

in Upgrading HP SIM.

Or you can uninstall HP Servicecontrol Manager or HP SIM using the following command:

swremove -x enforce_dependencies=false ID

where ID is the product or bundle ID. For example:

swremove -x enforce_dependencies=false B8339BA

swremove -x enforce_dependencies=false T2414BA

Remove the old product subdirectories by executing the following command:

rm -rf /opt/mx /etc/opt/mx

The database for the Servicecontrol Manager, mysql, can be removed by executing the

following command:

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