HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1 Installation Guide for HP-UX

1 Installation overview and requirements
This chapter provides an overview of the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) installation process,
and it identifies the system requirements for an HP-UX CMS, a managed system, and a network
client.
Overview of first time install process
For a first-time installation of HP Systems Insight Manager on your CMS, perform these steps:
1. Install and configure the CMS. For more information, see “Installing HP Systems Insight Manager
on the CMS for the first time” (page 22).
2. Install and configure the required management software on the systems that the CMS will
manage. For more information, see “Setting up managed systems” (page 27).
3. Configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment. For more information, see
“Configuring Systems Insight Manager” (page 30).
Upgrade overview
If Systems Insight Manager is installed on your CMS, see the upgrade instructions in “Upgrading
HP SIM” (page 36).
System requirements
This section identifies the hardware and software requirements and recommendations for HP Insight
Control. These requirements are separated into sections for the CMS, managed system, and network
client.
Support for Adobe Flash player
HP recommends that the version of Adobe Flash player is atleast 10.3.183.11. This is a patched
version of Adobe Flash Player 10. To download the latest patched version, seehttp://
www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-28.html.
Part 1: HP-UX Central Management Server
Prerequisite
• Install the current version of smbclient before installing HP-UX SIM. The current version of
smbclient is required to successfully integrate HP-UX with the Microsoft Windows
environment. This avoids the possible risk of CRA task failure error. To install the current version
of smbclient for HP-UX, see https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/
displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8725AA.
Operating system
• HP-UX 11i v2 Update 2 (11.23 PI-PA)
• HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31 IA/PA)
• HP Integrity Virtual Machine running a guest that has HP-UX 11i v2
• HP Integrity Virtual Machine running a guest that has HP-UX 11i v3
NOTE: The Systems Insight Manager CMS cannot run on an HP Integrity Virtual Machine (HPVM)
host.
The required patches must be installed for each of these operating systems. For more information,
see “HP-UX patches” (page 7).
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