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

Contents
1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................5
First time install process overview................................................................................................5
Upgrade overview....................................................................................................................5
System requirements..................................................................................................................5
Support for Adobe Flash player.............................................................................................5
Part 1: HP-UX Central Management Server..............................................................................5
HP-UX patches................................................................................................................7
Downloading and installing individual HP-UX patches..........................................................7
Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations.....................................................8
Managed storage system....................................................................................................15
Foreign language support...................................................................................................15
HP CloudSystem Integrated Manager requirements.....................................................................15
System support..................................................................................................................16
Hardware support..............................................................................................................16
2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time.................22
Preparing the system...............................................................................................................22
Installing and configuring the software......................................................................................23
Tuning HP SIM (Optional) .......................................................................................................26
Next steps.............................................................................................................................26
3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................27
Installing the required software on an HP-UX system....................................................................27
Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................28
Setting up managed systems using the HP SIM interface..............................................................28
Installing SMI-S providers.........................................................................................................28
Verifying SSL..........................................................................................................................29
Configuring SMI-S providers.....................................................................................................29
4 Configuring Systems Insight Manager.........................................................30
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................30
Operating-system-specific collections.....................................................................................31
Operating-system-specific reports.........................................................................................32
Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu..............................................................................32
Configuring HP-UX systems manually.........................................................................................34
5 Upgrading HP SIM...................................................................................36
6 Uninstalling HP SIM..................................................................................38
Uninstalling HP SIM from an HP-UX system.................................................................................38
7 Configuration options................................................................................39
CPU utilization during data collection........................................................................................39
Overview..........................................................................................................................39
Implementation..................................................................................................................39
GUI time-out policy.................................................................................................................39
Overview..........................................................................................................................39
Implementation..................................................................................................................40
Systems Insight Manager audit log configuration........................................................................40
Overview..........................................................................................................................40
Implementation..................................................................................................................41
Configuring task results...........................................................................................................41
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