HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows

Contents
1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................5
First time install process overview................................................................................................5
Upgrade overview....................................................................................................................5
Pre-requisites............................................................................................................................5
System requirements..................................................................................................................5
Support for Adobe Flash player.............................................................................................5
Part 1: Windows Central Management Server..........................................................................5
Systems Insight Manager Windows Virtual Machine support.....................................................9
Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations.....................................................9
Managed storage system....................................................................................................17
SSH requirements...............................................................................................................17
Foreign language support...................................................................................................18
HP CloudSystem Integrated Manager requirements.....................................................................18
System support..................................................................................................................18
Hardware support..............................................................................................................18
2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time.................25
Preparing the system...............................................................................................................25
Typical install.........................................................................................................................31
Next steps.............................................................................................................................34
3 Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager.....................................................38
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................38
Operating-system-specific collections.....................................................................................39
Operating-system-specific reports.........................................................................................40
Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu......................................................40
4 Setting up and configuring managed systems...............................................42
Overview..............................................................................................................................42
Setting up managed systems using the HP Systems Insight Manager interface.................................42
Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................43
Installing SMI-S providers....................................................................................................43
Verifying SSL.....................................................................................................................43
Configuring SMI-S providers................................................................................................43
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems........................................44
5 Installing HP Insight Remote Support Advanced............................................45
Device and access requirements...............................................................................................45
HP Insight Remote Support Advanced installation process............................................................46
Restarting HP SIM service....................................................................................................46
6 Upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager......................................................47
Typical upgrade.....................................................................................................................51
Custom upgrade.....................................................................................................................52
Silent upgrade.......................................................................................................................53
Data migration.......................................................................................................................55
Exporting data from a CMS................................................................................................55
Importing data from a CMS................................................................................................56
Post migration steps............................................................................................................56
Next steps........................................................................................................................58
7 Uninstalling HP Systems Insight Manager.....................................................59
8 Configuration options................................................................................60
CPU utilization during data collection........................................................................................60
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