HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

1 Installation overview and requirements
This chapter provides an overview of the HP SIM installation process and identifies the system requirements
for a HP-UX CMS, a managed system, and a network client.
First time install process overview
Perform these steps for a first time install of HP SIM on your CMS:
1. Install and configure the CMS. See Chapter 2 “Installing HP SIM on the CMS for the first time” for
details.
2. Install and configure the required management software on the systems that will be managed by the
CMS. See Chapter 3 “Setting up managed systems”.
3. Configure HP SIM for your environment. See chapter Chapter 4 “Configuring HP SIM”.
Upgrade overview
If HP SIM is installed on your CMS see the upgrade instructions in "Chapter 5 “Upgrading HP SIM” for
details.
System requirements
This section identifies the hardware and software requirements and recommendations for HP Systems Insight
Manager. These requirements are broken into sections for the CMS, managed system, and network client.
HP-UX Central Management Server
This section contains the requirements for the operating system that is used for the HP-UX CMS.
Operating system
• HP-UX 11i v2 Update 2 (11.23 IA/PA)
• HP-UX 11i V3
• Integrity Virtual Machine running guest with HP-UX 11i v2
• Integrity Virtual Machine running guest with HP-UX 11i v3
NOTE: The HP SIM CMS cannot run on an HPVM host.
NOTE: The required patches must be installed for each of these operating systems. For more information,
see “HP-UX patches”.
Hardware
• Any HP system (PA-RISC 2.0 or Integrity) server with a minimum of 2 GB RAM (3 GB for HP-UX 11i
v3)
• Any HP system with Oracle installed with a minimum of 4 GB RAM
• Free disk space:
20 MB for CMS (/)•
• 600 MB for the CMS and DTF agent (/opt)
• 500 MB minimum recommended for data (/var/opt)
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