Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for MS Windows

Table of Contents
1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................6
First time install process overview..............................................................................................................6
Upgrade overview...................................................................................................................................6
System requirements................................................................................................................................6
Part 1: Windows Central Management Server........................................................................................6
Systems Insight Manager Windows Virtual Machine support...................................................................8
Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations...................................................................9
Managed storage system..................................................................................................................13
SSH requirements.............................................................................................................................13
Foreign language support.................................................................................................................13
HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager requirements....................................................................................13
System support................................................................................................................................14
Hardware support............................................................................................................................14
2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time.................18
Preparing the system..............................................................................................................................18
Typical install........................................................................................................................................22
Next steps............................................................................................................................................26
3 Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager.....................................................29
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard..........................................................29
Operating-system-specific collections...................................................................................................30
Operating-system-specific reports.......................................................................................................30
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu...............................................................31
4 Setting up and configuring managed systems...............................................33
Overview.............................................................................................................................................33
Setting up managed systems using the HP Systems Insight Manager interface...............................................33
Setting up managed storage systems.......................................................................................................34
Installing SMI-S providers..................................................................................................................34
Verifying SSL...................................................................................................................................34
Configuring SMI-S providers..............................................................................................................34
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems.....................................................34
5 Installing HP Insight Remote Support Advanced............................................35
Device and access requirements..............................................................................................................35
HP Insight Remote Support Advanced installation process...........................................................................36
6 Upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager......................................................37
Typical upgrade....................................................................................................................................40
Custom upgrade...................................................................................................................................41
Silent upgrade......................................................................................................................................41
Data migration.....................................................................................................................................43
Exporting data from a CMS..............................................................................................................43
Importing data from a CMS..............................................................................................................43
Post migration steps..........................................................................................................................44
Next steps......................................................................................................................................45
7 Uninstalling HP Systems Insight Manager.....................................................46
8 Configuration options................................................................................47
CPU utilization during data collection......................................................................................................47
Overview........................................................................................................................................47
Implementation................................................................................................................................47
GUI time-out policy...............................................................................................................................47
Overview........................................................................................................................................47
Implementation................................................................................................................................48
HP Systems Insight Manager audit log configuration..................................................................................48
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