HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1 Installation Guide for Linux

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: Linux Central Management Server................................................................................5
Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations.....................................................8
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 6.0..............................................................15
Managed storage system....................................................................................................16
SSH requirements...............................................................................................................16
Foreign language support...................................................................................................16
HP CloudSystem Integrated Manager requirements.....................................................................16
System support..................................................................................................................16
Hardware support..............................................................................................................17
2 Installing HP SIM on the CMS for the first time..............................................23
Preparing the system...............................................................................................................23
Installing and configuring the software......................................................................................24
Automatically installing HP SIM ..........................................................................................24
Manually installing HP SIM.................................................................................................25
After installing HP SIM........................................................................................................26
Enabling Linux VCRM features........................................................................................30
Next steps.............................................................................................................................31
3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................32
Installing the Proliant or Integrity Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time............................32
Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................32
Installing SMI-S providers.........................................................................................................32
Verifying SSL..........................................................................................................................32
Configuring SMI-S providers.....................................................................................................33
Configuring HP SIM to discover storage systems.........................................................................33
RHEL 6.0 installation instructions...............................................................................................33
4 Configuring HP SIM..................................................................................35
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................35
Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu..............................................................................36
Setting up Linux managed systems manually...............................................................................37
5 Upgrading from HP SIM............................................................................39
Upgrading HP SIM in Linux......................................................................................................39
6 Uninstalling HP SIM..................................................................................42
Uninstalling HP SIM from a Linux system....................................................................................42
7 Configuration options................................................................................43
CPU utilization during data collection........................................................................................43
Overview..........................................................................................................................43
Implementation..................................................................................................................43
GUI time-out policy.................................................................................................................43
Overview..........................................................................................................................43
Implementation..................................................................................................................44
Systems Insight Manager audit log configuration........................................................................44
Overview..........................................................................................................................44
Implementation..................................................................................................................45
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