HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1 Installation Guide for Linux

5 Upgrading from HP SIM
This chapter provides the steps to upgrade HP SIM 6.x and later. Before beginning the HP SIM
upgrade, verify that your user name and password to access to the database are valid. When you
perform and upgrade, HP SIM checks for a previous installation of HP SIM, stops HP SIM and all
related services and daemons, overwrites or copies files to the appropriate locations on the CMS,
and then restarts HP SIM and all related services.
Upgrading HP SIM in Linux
You can upgrade HP SIM automatically or manually. An automatic install executes the .bin file,
verifies the prerequisites and completes the upgrade. A manual install requires that you execute
the separate steps to unpack files and then upgrade HP SIM.
NOTE: Systems Insight Manager 6.x or later is supported for upgrade.
Procedure 4 Unpacking files to upgrade HP SIM
1. Extract the .rpm files from the .bin file. Set the permissions to include the right to execute
the .bin file by executing the following command:
chmod u+x HPSIM-Linux_C.6.x or later .bin --noexec --target mxserver
NOTE: For information on setting permissions, refer to Step 5.
2. To change the directory to mxserver, execute the following command:
cd mxserver
NOTE: If you are using hpsmd as your database, continue with Step 3 through Step 5. If
you are using Oracle as your database, skip to Step 6.
3. Install the hpsmdb database, using the appropriate .rpm files in the following order.
NOTE: The rpm -i hpsmdb-*.rpm command installs hpsmdb on your system.
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 or later
rpm -ivh hpsmdb-sles11-*.i586.rpm
• 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 or later
rpm -ivh hpsmdb-sles11-*.x86_64.rpm
NOTE: If you is using SUSE 9 with older version of HP SIM, then user has to upgrade SUSE
10 or SUSE 11.
4. Verify that the hpsmdb status reads running.
• For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (all versions):
NOTE: By default, the hpsmdb service is configured to run in INIT 3 and 5 level.
a. Execute the serviceconf command. The Service Configuration window appears.
NOTE: Use the ntsysv command instead of serviceconf if you are running
from a CLI prompt.
b. Scroll down to the hpsmdb entry.
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