HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

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Contents

1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................5

Overview of first time install process............................................................................................5

Upgrade overview....................................................................................................................5

System requirements..................................................................................................................5

Support for Adobe Flash player.............................................................................................5

Part 1: HP-UX Central Management Server..............................................................................5

HP-UX patches................................................................................................................7

Downloading and installing individual HP-UX patches..........................................................7

Part 2: Requirements and recommendations for managed system................................................8

Managed storage system....................................................................................................16

Foreign language support...................................................................................................16

HP CloudSystem Integrated Manager requirements.....................................................................16

System support..................................................................................................................17

Hardware support..............................................................................................................17

2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time.................24

Preparing the system...............................................................................................................24

Installing and configuring the software......................................................................................25

Tuning HP SIM (Optional) .......................................................................................................28

Next steps.............................................................................................................................28

3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................29

Installing the required software on an HP-UX system....................................................................29

Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................30

Setting up managed systems using the HP SIM interface..............................................................30

Installing SMI-S providers.........................................................................................................30

Verifying SSL..........................................................................................................................31

Configuring SMI-S providers.....................................................................................................31

4 Configuring Systems Insight Manager.........................................................32

Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................32

Operating-system-specific collections.....................................................................................33

Operating-system-specific reports.........................................................................................34

Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu..............................................................................34

Configuring HP-UX systems manually.........................................................................................36

5 Upgrading HP SIM...................................................................................38

6 Uninstalling HP SIM..................................................................................40

Uninstalling HP SIM from an HP-UX system.................................................................................40

7 Configuration options................................................................................41

CPU utilization during data collection........................................................................................41

Overview..........................................................................................................................41

Implementation..................................................................................................................41

GUI time-out policy.................................................................................................................41

Overview..........................................................................................................................41

Implementation..................................................................................................................42

Systems Insight Manager audit log configuration........................................................................42

Overview..........................................................................................................................42

Implementation..................................................................................................................43

Configuring task results...........................................................................................................43

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